LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Elizabeth
At 5 A.M. on the 2nd April a brig was observed on shore on Baldoyle Bank.
The Clara Baker Life-boat was launched, and, with great difficulty, owing to the strong gale which was then blowing from the E. and the heavy sea,...
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At about 8.40 P.M.
on the 26th January, the coastguard reported that news had been received from Herne Bay that two rockets had been seen in the neighbourhood of the Girdler lightvessel. A moderate N.N.W. gale was blowing,...
Around the Coast—And Inland
THE PRESENTATION of a cheque for more than £50,000 by the Lord Mayor of Cardiff to the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the Institution, was reported in the summer issue of THE LIFEBOAT. It was the amount raised up till that time by the...
Category: Articles
Supertramp
Three saved from grounded yacht in rojjgh conditions The three crew members aboard St Bees' Atlantic earned a letter of thanks from Michael Vlasto the RNLI's Chief .of Operations following a difficult service to the yacht Supenramp...
January (1)
JANUARY MEETING STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES. At 10.30 in the morning of the 9th of February, 1943, the 30- feet motor fishing boat Girl Lena, with a crew of four, was fishing off Stornoway. The sea was smooth, with a moderate north-west...
Category: Services
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Category: Advertisement
Pacific
MARCH 26TH. - PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. At 7.20 in the morning a message was received at Penlee from the coastguard that a vessel 4 1/2 miles south-west of The Lizard needed help. A light north-east wind was blowing. The sea was...
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Jump from pier SOUTHEND STATION MECHANIC, Robert Chalk, was walking with two friends, Frederick Robinson (ILB crew) and Bernard Barton, near the lifeboathouse on Southend Pier at 0900 on Monday, November 25, 1974, when, looking into the sea...
Notes to the Accounts
NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS 1 LIFE-BOATS The cost of replacing the existing fleet is approximately £13,000,000 (1970 £12,000,000). The committee has at present resolved to replace certain life-boats, the cost of which is estimated at...
Category: Accounts
An American Superfortress Aeroplane (2)
Great' Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk; and Lowestoft, and Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—About 6.30 in the evening, on the 7th of June, 1950, an American Superfortress aeroplane crashed eight miles north-north-east of Smith's...