LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Capt E. G. Newton
With the appointment of Capt. F. H. Edwards as honorary secretary of the Falmouth branch, Falmouth remembers the long association with the Institution —some 15 years—of the late honorary secretary, Capt. E. G. Newton, who took a personal...
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Pantarali
Sheringham, Norfolk - At 8.42 a.m.
on ist July, 1966 a message was received that the m.v. Pantarali, lying off the Dudgeon lightvessel, had a sick crew member on board who required medical attention. An R.A.F. helicopter...
Duchess of Kent at Weston-Super-Mare
The Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, visited the Weston- •uper-Mare life-boat station on June 26th. The crew, the officials of th« branch and members of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild were presented to her, and she saw...
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Amelia, of Torquay
The Lowestoft life-boat also went out on the 3rd March, in reply- to signals of distress during a heavy N.N.W. gale, and brought safely ashore from the schooner Anna Louisa, of Rye, the crew of 8 men of the schooner Amelia, of Torquay,...
Zephyr, of Baniff
Again, on the 11th January last, the Ramsgate life-boat went out in tow of the steam-tug Vulcan to the rescue of the crew of the schooner Zephyr, of Banff, which was totally wrecked on the north part of the Goodwin Sands. The wind was strong...
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Hazardous rescue on single engineThe RNLI's chief of operations has written to the Newhaven lifeboat station congratulating Second Coxswain Paddy Boyle for his skilful boathandling when he rescued a person from the water on 29 October...
Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
THE carriage consists of a fore and main ' body. The latter is formed of a keelway i and of side or bilgeways attached to the j...
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Catherine & Ellen
Again, on the 1st December, the Lifeboat went out in response to signals of distress shown from the schooner Catherine & Ellen, which had been overtaken by strong gale from the N.N.W., and which had brought up far out in the bay. The...
Auguste
ATHERFIELD, ISLE OF WlGHT.—The Life-boat Catherine Swift was launched at about 5.30 P.M. on the 15th February, the coxswain, while on the cliff, having observed a large barque strike on the Eastern Ledge at Atherfield and immediately swing...
Cecile
The No. 1 Life- ; boat Marie Lane was called out during foggy but smooth weather, on the 17th August, to the assistance of the cutter Cecil, of Lowestoft, which had stranded on the Scroby Sands. The Life-boat remained by the vessel until she...