LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 2.5 on the afternoon of the 3rd September, 1961, the police informed the coxswain that a man had fallen down the cliffs at Bempton, three miles north of Flam- borough Head. The life-boat Friendly Forester was...
The Norwegan Barque Iris
On the 14th February the Norwegian barque Iris, of Stavager, had several of her sails blown away in a terrific gale off the Mull of Cantyre, and was compelled to run for Machrihannish Bay, where she let go both her bower anchors. Being...
February (1)
FEBRUARY MEETING CRICCIETH, CAERNARVONSHIRE. Shortly before 6 in the evening of the 6th January, 1942, it became known that an Anson trainer aeroplane had come down in the sea in Tremadoc Ray. A light northerly wind was blowing, with a...
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Books
• The Pocket Oxford Guide to Sailing Terms has been abridged by Ian Dean- —himself a keen sailor—from the classic work by Peter Kemp, Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. The slim volume, published by Oxford University Press, price...
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The Saint
TOTLAND BAY, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The schooner The Saint, of Padstow, while bound from Par, Cornwall, to Gravelines, with a cargo of china clay, stranded on the Warden Ledge in the early morning of the 2nd May. On receipt of information from the...
EXTREME COASTAL WALKING
One fundraiser’s epic trek
After 3 years, 9,500 miles and 7 pairs of boots, fundraiser Alex-Ellis Roswell has completed his walk around the coasts of Britain and Ireland – calling in at every lifeboat station along the way. He...
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Trapped up to their waists
Morecambe | 4 September
When an elderly couple got trapped up to their waists in mud -with the tide coming in- Morecambe RNLI's hovercraft crew flew to the...
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Duckhams Oils Ltd.
Since experimental trials in '63 the ILBs have proved so successful that there are now 100 of them in regular use as well as the 150 conventional lifeboats. Over a three month period last year, these tough, nearly indestructable craft,...
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Duckhams Oils Ltd
Since experimental trials in'63 the ILBs have proved so successful that there are now 100 of them in regular use as well as the 150 conventional lifeboats. Over a three month period last year, these tough, nearly indestructable craft,...
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Ard Carna (3)
Overdue THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND motor fishing vessel Ard Carna put out from Greencastle, Lough Foyle, on Thursday April 28 to fish white fish. She had a crew of five and was expected back on the Friday or Saturday. At 2200 on Saturday April...