LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Brooks & Bentley
A time for faith, hope and inspiration The poem 'Footprints' with its touching image of our Lord carrying us through troubled times, has provided hope and inspiration to millions all over the world. And now. Brooks & Bentley...
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The S.S. Bidassoa
MAY 23RD. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 6.13 P.M. the coastguard passed to the life-boat station a message from the resident naval officer at Penzance, that a vessel with a dangerous list was about four miles N.E. of Pendeen...
Louisa, of Bristol
On the 1st January, whilst the ship Louisa, of Bristol, was being towed over Bideford Bar by two steamers during a strong gale from W.S.W., the hawser attached to one steamer break- ing, and the towing-gear of the other giving way, she let...
The Llaethliw, and Schooner John Stonard, and Brigantine Xanthus
Shortly after 4 o'clock on the afternoon of the 5th December, a signal of distress was seen flying from a schooner at anchor in the bay. The same Life-boat was launched, and proceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the Llaethliw, of...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BALLYCOTTON, Co. CORK.—A new Life- boat has been placed here, one of the 34 feet 10-oared class having been substi- tuted for the smaller boat at this Station.
The new Life-boat is named the Oliver Qoldsmith, it having...
Category: Articles
Sea Witch
Filey, Yorkshire - At 2.30 p.m. on 10th November, 1969, news was received that red flares had been sighted under Bempton cliffs. The life-boat Robert & Dorothy Hardcastle was launched at 2.41 in a fresh west south westerly wind with a...
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Wells, Norfolk.—13th February, 1938.
A signal was reported, but no trace of any vessel in need of help could be found.—Rewards, £25 18s. 9d..
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JULY 14TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
At 11.20 A.M. the coastguard reported that two bathers, men of the R.A.F., were drowning off Perranporth. A strong S.W. wind was blowing with a moderately heavy sea. The motor life-boat...
Notes of the Quarter
THE happenings in the first six months suggest that 1961 may well, in terms of figures, be an outstanding and possibly a record year in the history of the service. During these six months the Institution's life-boats were launched on...
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Glance and Glide
BROADSTAIRS AND RAMSGATE. — The brigantines Glance and Glide, of Ramsgate, both bound for Ramsgate from the north with coal, came into collision off the North Foreland in a strong E.N.E. gale, snow squalls, and a heavy sea on the morning of...