LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Samarang
BEBCAB, YOBKSHIEE, — The barque Samammg, of Newcastle, timber laden from Quebec, was reported ashore about a mile south of Marske daring aN. wind and a heavy sea at 6 A.M. on the 10th October.
The Surion-on-Trent Life-boat...
The Bull Lightvessel
Humber, Yorkshire. At 4.30 on the morning of the 8th of April, 1958, the Spurn Point coastguard told the cox- swain superintendent that a member of the crew of the Bull lightvessel had died during the night and asked if the life- boat would...
Head Protection for Lifeboat Crews By Stuart Welford Btbch Mimcche Mrina Research and Development Officer Rnli
Research and Development Officer, RNLI IMAGINE A JANUARY AFTERNOON. Not much wind, but a cold front forecast; the light will fade in a couple of hours; wind and sea will be getting up and the temperature is dropping all the...
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Wigeon
Adrift OBAN COASTGUARD picked up a distress call in the early hours of Tuesday June 14 from the 20ft yacht Wigeon with an elderly couple on board. Wigeon had broken adrift from a mooring in Craignure Bay, Isle of Mull, her outboard engine...
Rescue By Fifteen-Year-Old Boy
AT 10.30 on the morning of the 27th of July, 1957, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Hoylake life-boat station, Captain H. H. Davies, that a man was in danger on a bank opposite the Heswall Yacht Club, and asked if the...
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Henry Holman, of Plymouth
On the 14th January the schooner Henry Holman, of Plymouth, was observed in a dangerous position between the Clipera Rocks and Penrhyn Point, An- glesey, while the wind was blowing a very heavy gale from W.N.W. The Holyhead life-boat was at...
Westward Ho!
Our summer break at Littlehampton was a little longer than anticipated perhaps due to a reluctance to depart before there was some progress to report on the new boathouse project. It is now some two years since discussions started on the...
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An East Coast Gale
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 120 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 54 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to February 15th, 1934 - ... 63,615 An East Coast Gale.
ON 13th December an...
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Oceana
Walmer, Kent..—At 11.16 on night of the 14th of June, 1948, the Deal coastguard telephoned that a vessel was burning a flare and her crew shouting for help half a mile north-east of Leathercoat Point, and the motor life-boat Langham, on...
Above: Stormy Stan, Storm Force Mascot
Above: Stormy Stan, Storm Force mascot, receives the cheque from Stuart Leask and Gordon MacKay. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs