LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Leap overboard TORQUAY POLICE informed Brixham Coastguard at 1537 on October 5, 1973, that a girl was in the water off Meadfoot Beach and asked for the help of the ILB.
The message was passed to Torbay deputy launching...
London International Boat Show
EVERY YEAR at the London International Boat Show, the RNLI is given a flying start by the organisers of the exhibition, National Boat Shows Ltd, when they donate the space for the RNLI stand free of charge. This year's stand area would...
Category: Articles
In Memory of a Ship's Cat
THE Institution has received a gift of £l 6s. from H.M.S. Stork, stationed at Penang, the result of a collection made among the ship's company in memory of the ship's cat, Tiger, which was lost overboard at sea..
Category: Donations
Moville
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At 3.3 on the afternoon of the llth of August, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a small yacht had capsized in Magilli- gan Bay. At 3.20 the life-boat Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4) was...
H.M. Trawler Caulonia
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT HASTINGS MARCH 31ST. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX, AND DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 2.15 in the morning a message came from Dover asking the lifeboat to launch to the help of a vessel 3,000 yards to the south of...
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On the after- noon of the llth January, a doctor asked for the life-boat to go to Caldy Island to fetch to the mainland a girl who had been badly burnt and was in great pain. It would have been dan- gerous to fetch her in an open boat, and...
The S.S. Vistula
AITH'S 26 HOURS' SEARCH.
Aith, Shetlands. — 9th October, 1939. Information was received through the coastguard at 1.45 P.M.
that the s.s. Vistula, of Gothenburg, Sweden, had been...
Leaf from Lloyd's List
AN interesting tabular return has just been published in Lloyd's List of the casualties to shipping, reported to Lloyd's during, the month of January last. They are thus classified : vessels totally wrecked, 145; part of cargo saved,...
Category: Articles
Brothers
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 10.30 P.M. on the 29th May, 1938, the coastguard reported that the weather was getting bad and that several small fishing boats were at sea.
By 11 P.M. a...
Coxswain Derek Scott Bem
Coxswain Derek Scott, BEM, of The Mumbles, in the wheelhouse of the 33ft Brede class lifeboat to be named R.VJ.B Merchant Navy, during his visit to the RNLI stand at the Birmingham Boat and Caravan Show in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs