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Books
Books . . .
• Every now and again a book is added to the lifeboat library which can be recognised at once as a 'classic'. Such is A Source Book of Lifeboats by Ray Kipling (Ward Lock, £3.50). Few people can...
Category: Articles
Pilot Me and Glad Tidings
FEBRUARY 26TH. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At one in the afternoon the coastguard reported two cobles in difficulties a mile and a half to the south-east and unable to make the harbour. A north-east wind was blowing, with a...
A Whitley Bombing Aeroplane (3)
DECEMBER 9TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, CLOVELLY, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON. On the afternoon of the 9th December Padstow No. 1 motor life-boat put out to the help of a Whitley bombing aeroplane which had been reported down in the...
The South Goodwin Lightvessel (2)
On the night of the 26th-27th November, 1954, the South Goodwin lightvessel broke adrift in a gale and at daylight was found to be lying on her beam ends. The Dover, Ramsgate and Walmer life-boats were all launch- ed, but the sole survivor...
Daring
BALLYCOTTON, CORK,—The fishing yawl Daring, of Ballycotton, was overtaken by a sadden gale from the W.N.W. while lifting her nets in the bay at about 11.30 A,M. on the 17th October, The crew were unable to pull against the wind and broke...
The Humber Light-vessel
The Humber, Yorkshire.—15th October.
A Danish steamer reported the Humber light-vessel as flying a signal for help, but actually the signal was to the steamer, saying : " You should not pass too close to...
Letters
Thirty-five years back • Reading the winter issue of THE LIFEBOAT brings back memories of, incredibly, nearly 35 years ago. Memories of those hectic days may have become a bit mixed up by the passage of time, but I think it was in the autumn...
Category: Correspondence
A Bronze Medal Service at Holyhead
ON the night of the 25th of October, 1949, a whole northerly gale was blow- ing at Holyhead with violent squalls at forty and fifty miles an hour. The sea was very rough; the night dark with heavy squalls of rain.
A small...
Category: Services
The Belgian Motor Trawler Ibis
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT DUNMORE EAST FEBRUARY 28TH and MARCH 1ST.- DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD.
At 11.15 in the morning of the 28th the motor life-boat C. & S., of Dunmore East, was launched to the help of the...
Rod James
Rod James Crew Member aboard the Hayling Island Atlantic 21 during the Bronze medal service to the yacht Dingaling on 9 October 1988. Crew Member James was awarded the Institution's Thanks on Vellum for his part in the service, as was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs