LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Diesel Engines for Life-Boats
UP to the present all the motor life- boats in the Institution's fleet have been driven by petrol engines. The reason has been that, although the heavy oil used in Diesel engines is less inflammable than petrol, and the risk of fire much...
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Fishermen saved off Donegal
LOUGH SWILLY | 8 SEPTEMBER
Lough Swilly lifeboat crew rescued six fishermen and their sinking boat off the Donegal coast. The inshore and all-weather lifeboats launched at 3.15am. They found all six...
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IRB LAUNCHES
The following additional IRB services took place in April, July and August, 1969: No. 2 Life-boat Area Largs, Ayrshire - At 2.25 p.m. on llth August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a rowing dinghy, with one crewman,...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
at , by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, gt all to whom these Presents shall come Whereas the late SIR WILLIAM HILLARY, Baronet; the late MR. THOMAS WILSON, Member of...
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Greenhithe
APRIL 7TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
At 4.10 P.M., the coastguard informed the life-boat station that a sailing barge bound north had not been reported for some time.
A northerly pale was blowing with a very...
Book Reviews
With his series of books telling the stories of different life-boat stations Grahame Farr is making a unique contribution to the history of the life-boat service. Wreck and Rescue in the Bristol Channel (Part II): The Story of the Welsh...
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Adoration, Ebenezer and Nellie
CAUGHT BY SUDDEN GALES Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. — On the morning of the 13th of January, 1948, anxiety was felt for the safety of several local fishing boats at sea, for a gale was getting up, and at 12.15, when it was blowing a...
Faith Star, Success, and Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 2.30 oil the afternoon of the 10th of February, 19,55. the skipper of a fishing boat told the coxswain that anxiety was felt for the safety of the fishing boats Faith Star, Success, and Lead Us. At 2.35 the Xo. 1...
A Fishing Boat
DISTRESS SIGNALS Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 8.15 p.m. on 5th December, 1964, a local barkeeper telephoned the honorary secretary to report that distress signals had been seen off Duncannon and that a fishing boat was overdue. The sea...