LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tiger Fish
NET CAUSED TROUBLE At i.20 a.m. on nth August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red flare seen in Portballantrae bay was being investigated. It was one hour before low water with a gentle southwesterly breeze. Twenty...
Pulled from the brink
28 April: Tower A drowning man was pulled from the River Thames and resuscitated by crew and the police after he was spotted floating face down in the water. Helmsman Kevin Maynard explains: ‘One of the police...
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Lifeboat Services (from page 218)
the harbour entrance when she received a message from Barragutt saying that her steering gear had broken down and she was wallowing in the navigation channel between perches 6 and 7. When crossing the first bar the wire connecting the rudder...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 8.30 on the evening of the 3rd of April, 1959, the honorary secretary received a message that three pedigree cows had fallen over a cliff at Manorbier. Two of the cows were in a position which was inaccessible from...
The Motor Fishing Vessels Ocean Venture, Lead Us, and Wakeful
Whitby, Yorkshire - At 12.40 p.m.
on 5th January, 1967, news was received that three local fishing vessels were still at sea and the weather was deteriorating rapidly with very heavy seas breaking at the approach to the...
A Small Boat
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 2.10 P.M. on the 3rd September the bowman saw a small boat, with two boys onboard, capsize about five hundred yards from the quay. A fresh west breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The life-boat motor mechanic...
A Fishing Boat and Adventure
ADVENTURE AT SEA Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 3.18 p.m. on zyth November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat had been called out from Mudeford under the inshore rescue scheme to the help of another boat firing...
The Passenger Ship Lough Sunart
BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.—On the 11th January, at 10.30 P.M., the passenger-ship Lough Sunart, of Glasgow^struck on Skulmartin Eeef. The night was clear, with light wind and smooth sea. Signals of distress were shown from the vessel, and the...
An Injured Man Being Landed at Barry After a Dash By the Local Lifeboat Arthur and Blanche Harris from the Island of Flat Holm In the Bristol Channel
by courtesy of] [Western Mail An injured man being landed at Barry after a dash by the local lifeboat Arthur and Blanche Harris from the island of Flat Holm in the Bristol Channel.. - View image in PDF
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The RNLI Benefited By 2001 Sixpences Collected at Evening Performances of the Film 2001: a Space Odyssey at the Abc Cinema Hastings the Money Was Taken to The
The R.N.L.I, benefited by 2,001 sixpences collected at evening performances of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey at the ABC Cinema, Hastings. The money was taken to the bank by spaceman Mr. Fred Robinson.. - View image in PDF
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