LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Three Saved After Motor Boat Capsizes
ABOUT 6.30 on the evening of the 15th July, 1962, a party of four people and a dog put to sea from Axmouth harbour, near Seaton, in a 12-foot 6-inch motor boat driven by a 5 horse-power out- board engine. After about an hour the man in...
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A Yacht
Three snatched from wave-swept rock using boarding boat The Director of the RNLI has written to Alderney lifeboat station to congratulate coxswain Stephen Shaw and his crew on the excellent teamwork shown during a service by the...
A Wellington Aeroplane (1)
SEARCHING FOR AIRMEN Margate, and Ramsgate, Kent. — Shortly after 7.30 on the night of the 20th of November, 1947, the R.A.F. at Manston reported to the coastguard that a Wellington aeroplane was down in the sea north-east of...
Progress (3)
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 13th of December, 1955, the no. 1 life-boat second cox- swain reported that the local fishing boat Progress, which had a crew of five, had not returned from the fishing grounds to the...
Epic cycle challenge
‘I hope I remember how to walk,’ says the saddlesore Steve McAllister after cycling a good chunk of his 8,000-mile route. At the time of writing, Steve had just cycled through what he describes as ‘the unbelievably beautiful beaches and...
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The Bark Guyana. of Glasgow
On the night of the 10th February, the bark Guy- ana, of Glasgow, bound to the West Indies, was driven ashore on the Carrig Rocks, off Greenore Point, County Wexford, in a N.E.
gale. Intelligence having been conveyed to the...
Life-Boat Societies Abroad
THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1954 Life-boat Societies Abroad The Royal National Life-boat Institution agreed to a request made at the International Life-boat Conference that it should act as a distributing centre for information which may be of...
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Spes Bona
Eyemouth, Berwickshire. — On the 25th January a whole S.E. gale was blowing with a very heavy breaking sea. The small fishing boat Spes Bona was at sea, and there were fears that she would have difficulty in making harbour. The pulling and...
Inshore Rescue Boats
From July to September the new fast inshore rescue boats were launched on service thirty-three times and rescued seven lives. The following is the list of services or attempted services: Date Station 1963 July 10th: Mudeford July...
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Correspondents
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