LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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A few weeks later, on May 28, a pleasure boat was returning from a lighthouse trip when her crew, Second Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Ronald Wheeler spotted a man on the rocks signalling that somebody was injured.
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Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
THE annual meeting of the committee of this fund, of which H.R.H. the DUKE OF EDINBURGH is patron, was held on the 11th January last at the General Post Office, W. H. HAINES, Esq., 1 of the House of Lords, occupying the...
Category: Meetings
The S.S. Olefoss
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 10.40 on the morning of the 20th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel appeared to have broken away from two tugs which had been towing her. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett...
Jacob Rauers
The barque Jacob Rauers, of Gothenburg, whilst bound from that port to Grangemouth with a cargo of spars and pit-props, stranded on the rocks near the " Needle Eye," at Marshall Meadows, on the 29th...
(Left) the Final Product, the First Severn
(Left) The final product, the first Severn - in prototype form at least. Four hectic years have passed from the first Operational Requirements, through concept, design, testing, modification, development and operational trials .
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Category: Photographs
Zoe
On the 24th Aug.
the brigantine Zoe, of this place, was ob- served to be lying at anchor off Cooley Point, about nine miles from the Life-boat station, in an apparently disabled state,, she having lost both her masts. It...
Gwylan
GALE WARNING GIVEN New Quay, Cardiganshire. At 10.45 a.m. on yth July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulties in very rough seas on the New Quay side of Ynys Lochtyn.
The tide...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PORTRUSH, Co. ANTRIM.—The schooner Ullen Myvanwy, of Beaumaris, bound from Runcorn for Ramelton, co. Donegal, with a cargo of salt, anchored in Skerries Roads, off Portrush on the 28th Feb., 1891.
On the 2nd March, a gale...
Category: Services
Southern Cross
Lifeboatman put aboard yacht in gale force winds after skipper is taken ill The night-time rescue of two people aboard a yacht in gale force winds has earned Richard Hawkins, Coxswain/Mechanic of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat,...
Long Service Awards
THE LONG SERVICE BADGE, introduced from January 1 this year for crew members and shore helpers who have given active service for 20 years more, has been awarded to: Aldeburgh Coxswain W. V. Burrell. BEM Second Coxswain S. Strowger Motor...
Category: Awards