LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Girls trapped A POLICE message on May 1 told the Newquay, Cornwall, ILB that four people were stranded on rocks on the north side of Zacrys Island.
The maroons were fired at 4.26 p.m.
Wind was north...
My Lass
Tow line passed in SW gale Hastings - South East Division On Thursday, 24 March 1988 the Station Honorary Secretary at Hastings, John Heyes, heard on VHP channel 6 that the fishing vessel My Lass of Rye had broken her propeller shaft two...
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Outrageous Grace
Outrageous Grace
Taking the long way home
By John Otterbacher
Review by
Michael Masters
Outrageous Grace tells the true story of the author’s struggle against death – and...
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Hastings County, of Bergen
ON the night of June 13th the Motor Life-boat at Stromness was called out to the help of a large steamer, the Hastings County, of Bergen, on her way from Hamburg to Montreal with a general cargo, which the Coast Guard had reported to have...
The Triple-Screw Motor Yacht Shirley Bourne
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 5.20 in the afternoon of the 26th of March, 1949, in a dense fog, the watchman on the East Pier reported that cries for help could be heard, and five minutes later the life-boat Prudential left her moor- ings. A light...
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SPANIARD WAS ILL At 4.30 p.m. on 23rd December, 1964, the army authorities in Benbecula reported that a Spanish seaman on the Isle of St. Kilda was seriously ill with suspected typhoid, and that as a helicopter could not help, the life-boat...
The Belgian Yacht Haura
Lifeboatmen transferred to Belgian yacht in gale and heavy seas A joint service by Southwold's Atlantic 21 class lifeboat Quiver and Lowestoft's Tyne Spirit of Lowestoft has won two lifeboatmen framed letters of thanks from the...
Two Ex-Coxswains Drowned
ON the 25th of May a fishing coble, the Ricia, from Cloughey, Co. Down, went out lobster-fishing. She had three men on board, Andrew Young, his brother, John Young, and John's son, Andrew Young, junior. They were expected back before...
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The S.S. Empire Flamingo
Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—At 8.15 in the morning of the 26th of October, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the tug Superman asking for the life-boat to take four men off a sinking hulk three miles south of...