LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Story Of Success
SOS day 2008, on 25 January, was a great success. Thank you to everyone who took part and supported the RNLI’s national fundraising day.
Money is still coming in, so the Lifeboat can’t announce a figure for the total...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Object and Work
(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.
The work of the Institution mainly consists of— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Articles
Vert Prairial
Penlee, Cornwall.—At seven o'clock on the morning of the 14th of March, 1956, the Tol-Pedn-Penwith coast- guard rang up to say that a trawler had been wrecked at Wireless Point, Porthcurno. At 7.15 the life-boat W. and S. was launched....
Chart Shewing the Lives Lost By Drowning In Inland Waters In England & Wales During the Year 1877
CHART SHEWING THE LIVES LOST BY DROWNING IN INLAND WATERS IN ENGLAND & WALES DURING THE YEAR 1877.
Category: Charts
The S.S. Cantick Head and Semnos
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 6.35 in the morning of the 25th of October, 1948, the Wick Coastguard telephoned that the s.s. Cantick Head, of Leith, was driving ashore in Thurso bay, and at 7.10 the motor life-boat H.C.J. was launched. A...
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Galway Bay. At 3.30 on the after- noon of 3rd of December, 1958, the honorary secretary received a request from the local doctor for the use of the life-boat to take an expectant mother from Inishere Island to the mainland.
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At 11.1 a.m. on 3rd August, 1966, a yacht was reported to be making little headway in very heavy seas in Rye bay.
The life-boat Fairlight was launched at 11.17, three hours after low water, in astrong south westerly gale...
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Ramsgate, Kent - At 7.31 a.m. on 3rd November, 1968, the coastguard reported that flares had been seen in Sandwich bay at the entrance to the river Stour. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 7.40 in a southerly gale...
Annual Awards 1980
The Maud Smith Award for the most outstanding act of lifesaving during 1980 has been made to Coxswain/ Mechanic Malcolm Macdonald of Stornoway for the rescue of 29 men from the trawler Junella on September 29. In a strong southerly gale and...
Category: Awards
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Galway Bay.—At 2.30 in the morn- ing of the 18th of August, 1949, the local doctor asked for the life-boat to take to the mainland a boy who was on holiday in Kilronan, had fallen ill, and must be operated on immediately. No other boat was...