LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Mirror Class Dinghy
Night search EXMOUTH DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY was informed by HM Coastguard at 0117 on Wednesday, July 28, that a Mirror Class dinghy, with a crew of two, was long overdue. In good visibility and with a gentle north-westerly breeze and...
Rnli National Lottery
A GREETING of 'Hi-de-hi.r of course brought a resounding response of 'Hode- ho!' from the audience gathered to witness the draw of the RNLTs twentysecond national lottery at Poole HO on Friday July 29. Jeffrey Holland and Felix...
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Valhalla and a Yacht
Yacht towed in THE HIGH WINDS OF Sunday August 11, 1985, which brought about a bronze medal service at St Peter Port, Guernsey and vellum services at Weymouth and Ramsgate (already reported in earlier issues), and which involved 39 stations...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
THE object of this Institution, as declared in its title, is to afford assistance to every Shipwrecked Person around the coasts of the United Kingdom.
The chief means by which it hopes to carry this object into effect are—...
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Tyne Prince
Shortly before 11 A.M. on the 19th January the steam trawler Tyne Prince, of North Shields, stranded on the Annat Bank and hoisted distress signals. The No. 2 Life-boat Marianne Atherstone was launched and pulled down to where the trawler...
Gisele Aimee
Weymouth, Dorset.—At about 4.20 A.M. on the 4th August, 1938, Wyke coastguard reported that a yacht was in difficulties north of Weymouth Pier and was burning red flares. She was the auxiliary yacht Gisele Aimee, of St. Malo, bound, with a...
Services of Life-Boats
BRIDLINGTON. — On the 22nd of March last, at 3 A.M., the wind blowing strong from E.N.E. at the time,' and a heavy sea running, signals of distress were observed from Bridlington Quay on board the schooner Albion, which had on the...
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Edward Macbean & Co Ltd
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Josephine II
Hythe, Dover, and Folkestone, Kent.— On the night of the 13th-14th December the Hythe and Dover motor life-boats and a Folkestone fishing boat went out to the rescue of the crew of three of the motor fishing boat Josephine II, of...