LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 2.45 oi\ the afternoon of the 6th of June, 1953, a local boatman reported that a girl had fallen over a cliff into the sea at the Nose of Howth, half a mile from the harbour. At 2.55 the life-boat...
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Brighton and Shoreham Harbour: Early in the evening of September 15, 1983, when a force 8 gale, gusting to strong gale, force 9, was blowing from the south west and the sea was very rough, a swimmer was reported in difficulties between...
Close Up
cLose UP Nor any drop to drink to the surprise of many, RnLi lifeboat crews headed inland this summer, responding to a different kind of emergency. Carol Waterkeyn fi nds out what was going on What can be worse than losing your home and...
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Patho
CLACTON.—Two telegrams having been received, one from the coxswain of the Southend Life-boat and the other from Maplin Lighthouse, reporting a vessel on the sands and showing signals of distress, on the 16th January, the Life-boat Albert...
Futurity
Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—At 10.25 on the night of the 17th of January, 1952, the South Gare Lighthouse keeper telephoned that a ship had gone aground on the training wall in the mouth of the River Tees, and at eleven o'clock the life-boat...
Britannic
At about 2 P.M. on the 31st October the Coxswain and some of the crew of the Life-boat Samuel Lewis, when fishing near Chapel, observed a barge flying signals of distress.
The men promptly landed and tele- phoned for a...
Inschallah
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.16 on the morning of the llth of August, 1957, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that a distress signal had been seen two miles south of Portland Bill. At 3.40 the life-boat William and Clara Kyland put out in a...
The S.S. Orkney Trader
Buckie, Banffshire. At 9.30 on the morning of the 5th of February, 1958, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the S.S. Orkney Trader, of Kirk- wall, was in danger of driving ashore two and a half miles north of Buckie.
Stromness: First Lifeboat Station In Orkney By Joan Davies
TAKE THE FERRY from Scrabster Harbour to Stromness. Cross the Pentland Firth from the north coast of Caithness to Mainland, Orkney, and already there is a growing feeling of vast distance, of wide horizons. A majestic, ponderous swell rolls...
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Richard Cobden
During a whole gale of wind from the S.W. on the 10th February the Life-boat was launched at 5 P.M., and proceeded to the schooner Richard Cobden, of Swansea, bound from Briton Ferry to Freeport, U.S., with coal, which was flying a signal of...