LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Triple-Screw Motor Yacht Shirley Bourne
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 5.20 in the afternoon of the 26th of March, 1949, in a dense fog, the watchman on the East Pier reported that cries for help could be heard, and five minutes later the life-boat Prudential left her moor- ings. A light...
Hastings County, of Bergen
ON the night of June 13th the Motor Life-boat at Stromness was called out to the help of a large steamer, the Hastings County, of Bergen, on her way from Hamburg to Montreal with a general cargo, which the Coast Guard had reported to have...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
{Incorporated by Royal Charter.) Founded 4th March, 1824.—Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.
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Nancy of Teignmouth
On the 9th April, this boat was again called into use. The brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth, was observed to part her cables, and go ashore at the Horse Bank; the life-boat was promptly launched, and proceeded to the aid of her crew, which...
December
Launches 49 Lives rescued 252
DECEMBER 2ND. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
During the morning a wireless message was received at Holyhead, and telephoned to Moelfre, asking for a life-boat to take a badly-injured...
Category: Services
The S.S. Rheola
WORKINGTON.—The Dodo Life-boat was launched at noon on the 3rd of January, 1887, to the assistance of the s.s. Rheola, of Cardiff, bound from Carthagena for Maryport with a cargo of iron ore, which had grounded a little to the N. of...
New Ways of Raising Money
Mr. Douglas Newall, a water bailiff employed by the Avon and Dorset River Board, and Major Oliver Kite, a well-known fisherman, tied some specimen dry flies as used on the chalk streams of southern England. The case of flies was auctioned at...
Category: Donations
Excel, of Dover
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 13th December the motor vessel Excel, of Dover, left Ramsgate for London. On board were the owner, his two daughters and son. The Excel ran into bad weather, her engine broke down, and she was driven...
The Edinburgh Lightvessel (1)
Margate, .Kent, and Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At about 3.55 A.M. on the llthFebruary, 1938, the Margate coastguard telephoned that Clacton coastguard had reported rockets near the Edinburgh Light-vessel. A north gale was bio wing, with a very...
George jumps at 97!
A 97-year-old man from Bournemouth is believed to have become the UK’s oldest skydiver after jumping out of a plane at 3,000m for the RNLI.
George Moyse jumped, in a tandem dive with an instructor, on 4 April. His grandson...
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