LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kings of the Sea
The relationship between the RNLI and the Sea King helicopters of the RAF's Aeronautical Rescue Coordination Centre has proved vital in many rescue missions.
James Ferguson visited RAF Kinloss to find out more about...
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On the Sands. A Yachtsman's Story of His Rescue
[The Yachting Monthly of March 1952 published an account by Mr.
D. K. Rae of a trip in his W-feet auxiliary yacht Sirius. It started from the Crouch, but the Sirius grounded on the Buxey Sand off Clacton. The crew laid out...
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Statement of the Several Life-Boats Belonging to Or In Connection With the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BELONGING TO on IN CONNECTION WITH T STATION. Length. Breadth. No. of Oars. When Stationed £ or Named. ENGLAND. Ft. In. Ft. In. NORTHUMBERLAND BERWICK-OS-TWEED - - - 37 - 8 - 12 1888 HOLY...
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The S.S. Alice of Bremen
Moelfre, Anglesey.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 10th of February, 1953, the Holy head coastguard tele- phoned that the S.S. Alice of Bremen, which had broken down and had been towed to Moelfre Bay by a pilot boat, was dragging...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PALLING, NORFOLK.—About 1 A.M.
on the 9th March the schooner Vixen of Fowey was wrecked on the beach about two and a half miles to the north of Palling. She was laden with burnt ore and was bound from London to the Tyne....
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News and Views
Deputy PM takes to the lifeboats! Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott took to the water in the Dover lifeboat recently when he presented the RNLI with a Millennium Product plaque for the Severn class all-weather boat.
The...
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Ole Sif, of Copenhagen
Mallaig, Inverness-shire - At 10.20 a.m. on I2th January, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a ship was aground at Barony Point, Morvern. The life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin left her moorings at 10.30 in a fresh north...
The S.S. M.J Hedly
On the night of the 13th January the s.s. M. J.
Hedley, of Penzance, collided with the mail steamer Connaught, and was so badly damaged that her crew were compelled to desert her. A message reaching Holyhead, the steam Life...
Salute the Lifesavers!
Can you imagine what life might have been like 200 years ago for children in the 19th century (1800-1899)? II was a lime when everything depended on how rich Iheir parents were. The government did little to help the poor who were trying to...
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On the Force of the Wind
IN the Register of Wrecks, which, always forms a portion of each number of this Journal, it will be observed that in addition.
to the direction of the wind, a column of figures is added to denote its force, by a scale, the...
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