LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats
MONTROSE, N. B.—On the 17th April some of the fishing fleet of Montrose were caught outside the bar of the river in a sudden storm from the S.E. Many boats which were in great peril hove-to outside, unwilling to take the bar. The...
The S.S. Fermain
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 29th of December, 1952, the master of the S.S. Fermain, of Guernsey, which had fourteen persons on board, wirelessed that his ship had struck a rock and had been badly holed about...
Roller Skids
THERE are doubtless few persons that reside on, or have visited, our coasts who have not frequently watched with interest the picturesque groups of fishermen and other boatmen hauling up their boats, and observed the contrivances by which...
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John
A northerly gale of exceptional severity sprang up with the suddenness—it is reported—of a "clap of thunder," and the Life-boat Queensbury was called out to assist some cobles in distress, but as help reached them from another...
The S.S. Baron Ardrossan
DECEMBER 30TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At 1.50 in the morning the postmaster at Barra reported to the coastguard that he had heard the siren of a steamer to the southward, and at two in the morning the motor life-boat Lloyd’s put out...
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Stranded in cave THREE CLIFF CLIMBERS, missing west of Anvil Point, were reported to Swanage lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1733 on Saturday November 29, 1980; the station's 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat J. Reginald Corah, was launched...
Mary, of North Shields
On the same day a very severe gale was experienced here, accompanied by a tremendous sea. About noon a vessel, which proved to be the schooner Mary, of North Shields, was seen inside the buoy off the Filey Brigg. She was dismasted and...
Walmer Life-Boat Crew at French Embassy
THE crew of the Walmer life-boat went to London on Thursday, 27th of November, to receive the medals awarded to them by the French life-boat society, La societe centrale de sauvetage des naufrages for the rescue on the 13th of January, 1952,...
Category: Medals
Casamance (2)
FEBRUARY 17TH. - HARTLEPOOL, AND SEAHAM, DURHAM, AND REDCAR, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. Shortly after midnight a message came to the Hartlepool honorary secretary’s house from the coastguard that the life-boat was wanted. The honorary secretary...
Grim But Glorious: the Days of Oar and Sail By Ray Kipling Public Relations Officer Rnli
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To many people, every lifeboat rescue is an act of heroism, carried out in a tortuous battle against the elements; to lifeboatmen, even the worst conditions are modestly played down...
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