LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Appeals
AN APPEAL has been launched in Nottinghamshire to raise £150,000 to fund a Brede type lifeboat to be named The Nottinghamshire. In support of the appeal, the ex-Scarborough 37ft Oakley lifeboat /. G. Graves of Sheffield (service...
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Rock pool FALMOUTH COASTGUARD telephoned the deputy launching authority of St Agnes lifeboat station at 1817 on Friday August 6, 1982, reporting a youth trapped on rocks at Porthtowan swimming pool, about 3'/2 miles south west of St...
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Baby alerts lifeboat - twice!Most people have their first taste of a lifeboat a little later in life than tiny Francesa Richey, who found herself aboard Oban's Brede Nottinghamshire when only a few hours old - having already put her on...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Henry West of Sheringham. He was appointed assistant motor mech- anic in 1940, became second coxswain in 1947 and coxswain in 1951. Cox- swain West was awarded the silver medal for gallantry for the...
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Snaefell
FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.—At 8 P.M. on the 4th February the Life-boat Sob Newbon was launched, intelligence having been received from the coastguard that a vessel was aground on the Black Rock. A moderate wind was blowing from E.N.E., and there...
Singular Case of the Restoration of the Apparently Drowned
CAPTAIN CREWE READ, R.N., Inspecting Commander of the Swansea Coast-guard Division, has forwarded to the Institution the following account of the resuscitation of a sailor apparently dead from drowning :—" At a late hour in the evening...
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Lerwick, Shetland*.—While the life-boat was taking the food and mails to Gmtness on the 1st of March, 1947, a doctor, whom she had taken to Quarff on the 28th of February, but who had been unable to land, telephoned that the patient there...
The Southwold Life-Boats, 1840-1916. (Continued from "Life-Boat Journal," August, 1917, p. 198.) By Ernest R. Cooper, Hon. Secretary
THR Second Coxswain, who is also a harbour pilot, was put aboard with three men, and they tried to get the vessel* to the harbour, but the tide and wind set her into Dunwich Bight close to the shore ; at one time it looked like the barge...
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Ten Lives and Seven Boats Lost
Ten life-boatmen have lost their lives on service' during the five years.
Seven life-boats have been destroyed or lost, one at Dunkirk, one at its station, three in a building yard and two in the Channel Islands, where...
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A Dinghy (1)
PILOT CUTTER'S REPORT At 8.14 p.m. on 4th September, 1964, .the coastguard told the honorary secretary that Nab pilot cutter had reported a dinghy adrift but was unable to help.
It was two hours before high water with...