LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Caister Station Endangered
There have been two Life-boats at Caister, on the Norfolk coast, one for seventy, the other for sixty years, and they have the magnificent record of 1709 lives rescued from shipwreck.
These two boats lie on the open sandy...
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Lt Cdr R M Richards,
Lt Cdr R M Richards, President of Barmouth station. He joined before 1967 and was Chairman from 1968 until 1979 when he became President. He was awarded the Silver badge in 1986.. - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Crestville
Port Erin, and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—About 5.35 on the afternoon of the 27th of May, 1956, a man informed the coxswain that he had seen from Cradder Head a steamer aground on the Calf of Man. At 5.55 the life-boat Matthew Simpson was...
A Dinghy
Hastings, Sussex. On the afternoon of the 2nd July, 1961, while the Hastings regatta was taking place, news was received that a small dinghy belonging to the local angling association was lying some distance off shore and mak- ing no headway...
Kate
WHITEHAVEN.—On the evening of the 17th September about 5 o'clock, at about half tide, there was a strong southwesterly wind and a heavy sea. The schooner Kate, of Peel, 122 tons register,was coming into Whitehaven Harbour light, for coal...
Charles P. Knight
CLOVELLY, NORTH DEVON.—While a moderate to strong gale was blowing on the 4th October, accompanied by a heavy sea, a vessel was seen by the Coastguard at the Watch Tower Station, and although she had no signal of distress flying she appeared...
The Empress of the French
BUT a few days since the British public were startled by the intelligence that the Empress of the French and her royal son, the Prince Imperial, had nearly lost their lives by drowning, on the coast of France.
We will...
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Humbug
Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 8.1 p.m.
on 3rd September, 1967, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht was in difficulties with engine trouble. The h'fe-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched...
A Vessel
Other Launches on the Night of the 28th.
On the opposite side of Anglesey to Moelfre and Beaumaris. the two Holyhead Life-boats were also out for the greater part of the night, the Steam Life-boat being launched twice, the...
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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