LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1886
YEAR after year the Board of Trade draws public attention to the shipping catas- trophes occurring on our rock-bound shores, as though to remind us that a large proportion of the luxuries and comforts we daily enjoy are obtained at the cost...
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Tramore, Co. Waterford. At 4.25 p.m. on 9th October, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the police that cries for help had been heard coming from the sea half a mile east of the station.
At 4.30 the IRB launched on a...
The 52Ft Barnett Lifeboat Archibald and Alexander M Paterson
The 52ft Barnett lifeboat Archibald and Alexander M. Paterson, which has been on station at Stromness since 1955, launching down her slipway. Archibald and Alexander M. Paterson was the gift of Miss Margaret M. Paterson of St Petersburg,... - View image in PDF
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Record Breakers
Dittons Skiff and Punting club broke the channel crossing world record and raised money for the RNLI by rowing from Dover to Cap Gris Nez, in little over two hours and 42 minutes - a 25% improvement of the previous record! The record... - View image in PDF
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December
Launches 54 Lives rescued 76
DECEMBER 4TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At five in the morning the local motor fishing vessels Pilot Me and Gem put to sea in bad weather. During the morning the weather worsened...
Category: Services
The S.S. Sharpsburg, of Philadelphia
FEBRUARY 14TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 1.55 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a life-boat was required by a tanker on fire between Ql and Q2 Buoys in the Queen’s Channel. A light northerly wind was blowing with a slight...
"Storm Warriors of the Suffolk Coast."
Storm Warriors of the Suffolk Coast, by Ernest Read Cooper, F.S.A. (" Suf- folk Coast"). With a Foreword by the Secretary of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. Heath Granton, Ltd. : 3s. Qd.
MAJOR COOPER has...
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A Barge (2)
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—3rd March, 1938. A collision some miles up the river had resulted in the sinking of a barge, but a steamer picked up one of the crew. Two others were drowned.— Rewards, £19 Is..
A Parachute (2)
JULY 3RD. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
A parachute with something attached had been seen to fall into the sea, but the life-boat was recalled as it was thought certain that no person was attached to the parachute and that the...
An Aeroplane (6)
JULY 3RD. - BEAUMARIS, AND HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. A wrecked aeroplane had been reported in the sea about twenty miles north of the Skerries, but nothing could be found. - Rewards : Beaumaris, £11 11s. 9d. ; Holyhead, £6 5s..