LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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SEVEN WALKERS MISSING At 9.40 p.m. on spth October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a party of seven people, walking from Cayton to Filey, were missing. The coastguard asked if the life-boat could help with the search...
Ganges (1)
DEAL AND RAMSGATE.—On the 14th October, at about 5 P.M., during a very heavy gale of wind, the Gull Lightship fired signals of distress, in response to which the Deal Life-boat Mary Somerville proceeded to the Goodwin Sands. The Ramsgate...
Bronze Medal for Fowey Coxswain
AT 4.10 in the morning of March 23rd, the coastguard rang up Fowey life-boat station to say that he could see signals of distress in Par Bay, and thirty minutes later the reserve motor lifeboat, The Brothers, put out. A whole gale was...
Category: Services
Pacific
NEWQUAY CARDIGANSHIRE.—On the 1st January 1880 the Nelson Life-boat put off to the aid of the barque Pacific, of Swansea, which was in a dangerous position near the shoals in the bay during a1 fresh W. gale and hazy weather. One of...
Fishing Cobles (1)
CULLERCOATS.—The Co-Operator No. 1 Life-boat was launched on the 28th of January, several fishing cobles having been overtaken by a heavy sea. As the weather was foggy and the sea breaking heavily on the bar, the Life-boat remained afloat...
Native, of Peil
On the 23rd May the smack Native, of Piel, went aground on the North Bank, off Maryport, in a westerly gale. The Life-boat at that place, the Henry Nixson, "went to her aid, and, with the assistance of a steam-tog, succeeded in getting...
Christian
DUNGARVAN.—On the morning of the 20th February, a bright light was seen shining through a heavy snow-storm and it was at once concluded that it was a signal made by the trawler Christian, of Dunmore, which had been lying at anchor in the...
Scene 2
As she was coming in the smack struck the breakwater and immediately sank. One of the three men on board can be seen on the bows preparing to swim for the breakwater where he was rescued by lines. The other two took to the rigging..View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inshore Rescue Hovercraft
Inshore rescue hovercraft The Hurley Flyer 'Recently, when a nine-year-old girl in a dinghy and a man were in trouble, the lifeboat picked them up and the hovercraft flew the casualties right across the beach up the slipway to the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Cross's Broadcast.
Coxswain Robert Cross, of the Humber station made a wireless appeal for the life-boat service in the "Weeks Good Cause" in the Home Service of the B.B.C.
on 2ist. April. There were over 11,000 replies. The gifts...
Category: Articles