LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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DOCTOR'S MISSION At i.20 p.m. on 8th November, 1963, the local medical officer informed the honorary secretary that a patient was in need of medical attention on Inishere Island, and asked for the use of the lifeboat in case the patient...
The Curlew
AN INEXPERIENCED CREW Stromness, Orkneys.—At midnight on the 15th of July, 1947, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the motor boat Curlew, of Kirkwall, had left Rousay at about nine o'clock for Kirk- wall but that nothing had been...
The S.S. Commandant Charles Meric
On the 1st March the s.s.
Commandant Charles Meric, of Bay- onne, ran aground on the Cross Sand while bound from the Tyne to Bordeaux with a cargo of coal. She carried a crew of thirty. There was very little wind, but the...
A Boat
LIFE-BOAT HOLED BY CASUALTY A SMALL BOAT in a dangerous position off the West Hoyle Bank on 27th August, 1971, led to the Hoylake, Cheshire, life-boat Thomas Corbett being launched at 10.27 a.m.
The wind was west north west...
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Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 6th of December.
1954, the Commissioners of Irish Lights asked if the life-boat would land a sick man from the Inishtearaght Rock lighthouse, as the weather was too bad...
A Boat
Exmouth and Torbay, South Devon.— At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1956, the Brixham coastguard rang up to say that the Devon County Constabulary had reported that two children who had gone out from Dawlish in a small boat had...
Remarks on the Gales of October and November, 1863
By VICE-ADMIRAL Fitz-Roy, F.R.S.
AFTER an unusual continuance of stormy weather—remarkable even in the equinoctial period of our zone—it may interest some of the readers of the Life-boat Journal to hear a few of the...
Category: Articles
Anmara
Long Search THE STERN TRAWLER Anmara and her crew of three were reported overdue from Scarborough on the evening of May 21, 1987 and a search was organised by Humber Coastguard, to begin at first light on the following day.
Anthony's Last Lot
Anthony is presented with a memento of his 14 years as RNLI lottery promoter by Ian Ventham, head of fundraising and marketing - a mini lottery drum and plaque!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sum Speed
Harwich lifeboats called to power boat on fire Both of Harwich's lifeboats, the Waveney class John Fison and the Atlantic 21 British Diver II, were called to an incident on the River Orwell on 18 March 1990.A moored power boat had burst...