LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Year's Work
Lives rescued by life-boats Lives rescued by inshore rescue boats Lives rescued in other ways for whose rescue the Institution gave rewards Total lives rescued 354 10 224 588 People landed by life-boats and inshore rescue boats from...
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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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Ireland's Eye
AGROUND IN DENSE FOG Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 1.47 in the morning of the 7th of October, 1947, the coastguard reported a steam trawler aground near the end of the North Pier. There was a dense fog with a light westerly wind and a calm sea. The...
Samsal (1)
Stranded yacht AS DUSK FELL ON Tuesday, October 6, 1987, Liverpool Coastguard MRSC advised New Brighton's station honorary secretary, Captain John Billington, that a small yacht, believed to be the 24ft Samsal, had been observed possibly...
George Crabbe's Borough By A. W. Hawkes
THE Suffolk Aldeburgh ('Aldeburc' of Domesday) —to which we must add 'on sea' to distinguish it from other Aldeburghs, of slightly different spellings, in Norfolk and Essex—lies right on the coast of the North Sea, four miles...
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Anna, of Rensburgh
ANSTRUTHER, N.B.—As one of the congregations of this town were coming out of church on the evening of the 26th March, the signal gun was fired to summon the crew of the Life-boat Admiral Fitzroy. The schooner Anna, ofRensburgh, had been...
Catherine
On the 14th March at 7.15 A.M. the motor Life-boat Sir FitzRoy Clayton was again called out to the assistance of the brigantine Catherine, of Folkestone, which ran ashore on the east bank at the harbour entrance, when coming into Newhaven...
Quest and Dennis
AUGUST 11TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At about 9.30 in the morning a message was sent to the coxswain that the weather was very bad and that several fishing cobles were out. He went to the station and found that most of the fishing boats...
From the Fighting Services.
Last year the three fighting services, with their women's services, gave the Lifeboat Service more than ever before, £25,508. That is £6,123 more than in 1942..
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Mary Lloyd and Elizabeth
FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.—While a strong gale was blowing from N. accompanied by a heavy sea, thick weather, rain and hail, on the evening of the llth April, the three-masted schooner Mary Lloyd, of Carnarvon, laden with slates, from...