LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
R.A.F. Speed-Boats
Exmouth, and Torbay, Devonshire.— * 18th October, 1939. A message was received, at 7.25 in the evening from the R.A.F. that two of their speed- boats had broken down twelve miles S.W. of Beer Head and the motor life- boat was launched with...
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Category: Advertisement
Ben Tart of Dungeness
Ben Tart of Dungeness We are sad to report the death of Ben Tart, one of the most well-known lifeboat coxswains of the East coast, who gave some 50 years service to the RNLI.
Born in Dungeness in January 1915, Ben followed...
Category: Obituaries
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DECEMBER 19TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. A light had been seen off the coast, thought to be from a ship’s boat, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £14 5s. 6d..
Central Appeals Committee
THE RNLI Midnight Matinee to be held at the Victoria Palace in London, which had to be postponed, will now take place on Friday, March 8, 1974, and it should be possible to include full details in the next issue of THE LIFEBOAT.
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Category: Committee
Mary
BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.—The lugger Mary, of Buckle, was taken off the beach, at about midnight on the 30th April, in order to proceed to Gluny Harbour to be fitted out for the west coast herring fishery. A whole gale suddenly sprung up from...
Melrose
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At two in the afternoon of the 14th of October, 1948, information was received that the motor trawler Melrose, of Kilmore, had broken her propeller shaft and was drifting towards the shore two and a half...
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On the night of the 27th December, 1931, information was received from tke Coastguard at Southend that distress signals had been seen by the Lighthouse Keeper at Mull of Kintyre, about eight miles S.W. of the...
Eugenie
On the 13th November the brig Eugenie, of Brevig, bound for Great Yarmouth with a cargo of ice, stranded on the North Scroby Sand in a very heavy sea and a strong breeze from the S.S.W. The Life-boat Beauchamp went to her assistance and,...
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Saved by her dog's eyes When 14-year-old Catherine Sharman and her dog, Jet, became trapped on rocks by the tide, it proved difficult just to find her. Nightfall, driving rain, rough seas and strengthening winds all posed a challenge to...