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An Aeroplane (70)
MAY 7TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At about 5 A.M. the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station informed the coxswain that the pilot cutter, at anchor off the lifeboat house, had reported an aeroplane down about one and a half miles...
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From angling to sinking
When a group of four adults and a child discovered their speedboat was taking on water in choppy seas off Cork's Wild Atlantic Way, they desperately needed a lifeboat crew's...
Category: Articles
Welcome
It’s always difficult to choose which rescues to feature in Lifeboat magazine. With an average of 23 people rescued a day, there’s a lot of courage and determination to choose from
A person in the water. Fishermen in a...
Category: Articles
The Converted Ship's Boat Permit
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 1.0 in the afternoon on the 7th of August, 1951, the Formby coastguard reported that a cutter rigged yacht was off Formby Point. Twenty minutes later he said conditions were bad and her sails had been damaged. At 1...
The American Steamer Chrysanthy Star and Energetic (2)
Cadgwith, and Penlee, Cornwall and St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—At 11.5 on the night of the 25th of June, 1948, during a thick fog, the Cadgwith coast- guard telephoned the Cadgwith life- boat station that the American steamer Chrysanthy...
None (3)
Minehead, Somerset. At 6.5 on the evening of the 20th of March, 1958, the police told the honorary secretary that a young man had fallen on to the rocky shore about three miles west of Mine- head and was seriously injured. A rescue from...
New Life-Boat for Fraserburgh
A VERY interesting ceremony took place at Fraserburgh on the 4th August, when the new Motor Life-boat, the Lady Rothes, presented to the Institution by Mr. T. Dyer Edwardes, was named and launched in the presence of some thousands of...
Category: Inaugurations
The Rig Support Vessel Stream Truck
Special Vellunn for Doctor's services in severe conditions Aspecial Doctor's Thanks on Vellum has been awarded to Doctor Peter Fay of Kirkwall for his outstanding courage and determination following a service by Kirkwall's Severn...
A Sailing Boat
Two towed AT ABOUT 1600 on Wednesday December 6, 1978, Robert Gorman, a fisherman and ILB crew member at Aberystwyth, saw a capsized sailing boat and the college rescue boat about 400 yards off shore. Realising that they would need help he...