LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Cliff-climbing lifeboatman saves boy Lifeboat crews are highly trained in many fields so they will be prepared when out on a shout. But there are a few services where RNLI training cannot help, where it is up to the individual to do...
Sarina
Yacht in shoal water RED FLARES were sighted to seaward south of the harbour by Lowestoft Coastguard on the morning of April 13.
The honorary secretary, informed at 0448, gave instructions for maroons to be fired and the...
Two Ship’s Boats from the S.S. Enseign Marie Saint-Germain
FEBRUARY 22ND. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 11.20 A.M. the coastguard asked for the life-boat’s services for a vessel off the East Cross Sand Buoy, six miles east of Caister, and the motor life-boat Michael Stephens was...
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Minehead lifeboat men a 'tremendous help' during floods The crew of Minehead's lifeboats and the station's shore helpers all came in for praise when some of the worst storms in living memory battered the north Somerset town...
Prison Talk Brings Cheque
The R.N.L.I. last year received a cheque for £18 10s. 9d. from the Governor of H.M. Prison for Women, Wilmslow. This amount was raised at a sale of work held in aid of the Institution, and the items sold were made by those in Barker...
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Northgate
Humber, Yorkshire.—On the morn- ing of the 28th of January, 1949, there was dense fog, but the weather was calm, and at 5.10 the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Northgate, of Hull, was ashore close to the life-boat...
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Galway Bay. — At ten o'clock in the morning of the 12th of July, 1949, the local doctor asked for the help of the life-boat to take an urgent surgical case to Costello, Connemara, and the life-boat K.E.C.F. was launched at eleven...
Antilope
ON THE MANACLE ROCKS Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 3.30 in the afternoon of the 10th of March, 1947, a message came that the motor vessel Antilope, of Groningen, had struck the Manacle Rocks. A fresh southerly breeze was blowing, the sea was rough,...
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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Rock and roller rescue
During a surfing competition, one bodyboarder got more excitement than he’d bargained for
The setting
During the Volcom surfing contest on 10 September...
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