LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Trip In a Swedish Rescue-Cruiser
(Member of the crew of the Beaumaris life-boat) IT was seven o'clock in the morning and raining slightly as I walked through the deserted streets of Gote- borg down to the docks where I was to board the Swedish rescue-cruiser Wilh: R....
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Willie, of Llanelly
HARWICH.—On the 29th December, fires having been seen in the direction of the Platters Sand, the Life-boat Spring-well was launched, and after proceeding some distance, was taken in tow by the steamtug Liverpool. The signals were found to...
An American Liberator Aeroplane
DECEMBER 28TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
An American Liberator aeroplane had crashed in the darkness and caught fire, but she was right under the cliffs, and the life-boat could not get nearer than 300...
A Sailboard
Eastbourne's D class inflatable lifeboat is pictured helping a windsurfer ashore on Sunday, September 13. He was one of several who got into difficulties during a weekend of bad weather along the south coast..
Lady's Page
SCABBOBOUGH. — The fishing smack Lady's Page, of Scarborough, while running for the harbour during a strong S.S.E. wind and a very heavy, sea at 1 A.M.
on the 22nd of February, grounded outside the outer pier. A flare...
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Magne
NOVEMBER 20TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.
At 11.10 A.M. a steamer was seen to be aground on Robin Rigg Bank, about five miles north of Maryport. A W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. Visibility was very bad. At 11...
AWARDS to COXSWAINS, CREW MEMBERS AND SHORE HELPERS 1992
The following Coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement. Those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations were also awarded an annuity, gratuity or pension....
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A German Three Masted Schooner
At 10.30 P.M., on the 26th May, distress signals were | reported from the Princess Light-vessel, and the No. 1 Life-boat Eliza Harriet l was launched and proceeded to her.
There they learnt that a vessel...
An Admiralty Patrol Boat
NOVEMBER 17TH. - NEWHAVEN SUSSEX. At 6.52 P .M. a message was received from the coastguard that an Admiralty patrol boat needed help about two miles south of the breakwater. The sea was rough, with a fresh S.S.W. wind...