LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Long search rewarded FOLLOWING A REPORT that some people had been cut off by the tide in the Beacon Cove area, Newquay's 17ft 6in C class inflatable lifeboat had launched on the afternoon of Sunday August 3, 1986. It was a fine day with...
A Salmon Fishing Coble
MONTROSE.—-At 5 P.M. on the 8th of January, during a gale from the N.N.W., it was reported that a salmon fishing coble, with four men, was anchored a mile and a-half from Kirkside, and flying signals of distress, being in danger of drifting...
Lilian
SEPTEMBER 12TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At 4.43 in the afternoon a message was received from the signal station at Spurn Point that a small sailing yacht was in difficulties on the Binks. A south-east wind was blowing, and the sea was...
Phoenix, Admiral, Mary, James,and Mary Anne
THURSO, N.B.—On the evening of the 7th March, the wind blew a heavy gale here from the N.N.W. to N.W., and the harbour master and Custom House officer at Scrabster were apprehensive that if the sea got heavier as the night advanced, the...
Fishermen Return Rewards.
Five fishermen of Silloth, Cumberland, as they came back from their fishing, saw an aeroplane crash in the sea, went to its help, and rescued the airmen.
The Institution sent them rewards, but they returned them, saying:...
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James Postelthwaite
— The schooner James PostletJiwaite, of Barrow, whilst bound for Burton Port in ballast, stranded on the north side of Eighter Island, on the 15th June. Information reached Aranmore by telegram about 2.15P.M., and the Life-boat, La Totitam,...
TRIPLE JUMP
Three trawlermen aground in a gale take a courageous leap of faith …
Jonathan Connor was spending his Sunday evening studying. The trainee crew member was at Kinsale Lifeboat Station, working on an RNLI course, when he...
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Dover, Kent.—At 6.35 in the even- ing of the 3rd of May, 1952, the police reported that six boys were trapped by the tide between Fan Bay and St.
Margaret's, and at 8.50 the life-boat Thomas Markby, on temporary duty at...
Unity
During a strong N.E. gale in the evening of 8th January one of the anchor chains, to which the schooner Unity, of Carnarvon, was lying at anchor in a dangerous part of Fishguard Bay, parted. There were four persons on board the schooner, and...
A Rowing Boat
APRIL 5TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
During the morning, four of the crew of the minesweeper Port Rose, which was anchored two or three miles to the north of Sheringham, came ashore in a rowing boat. The weatherwas fine with a...