LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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NAVAL RATING TRIES TO SWIM TO SHIP Weymouth, Dorset. At 12.8 early on the morning of the 8th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary medical adviser that a naval rating had decided to swim to his ship...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
EASTBOURNE.—THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a new and additional Life-boat station at Eastbourne in order to strengthen the Life- boat service on that coast, the Local Committee unanimously approving of the formation of...
Category: Articles
Gem
On the 5th Sept. this Life-boat again put off in a gale of wind, and rescued 5 men and a pilot from the wreck of the schooner Gem, totally lost on the Dogger Bank..
Margaret Elizabeth
One of the worst gales that had been experienced for some years blew off Anglesey on the 8th January, and at 8.40 A.M. the ketch Margaret Elizabeth of Beaumaris stranded near Moelfre.
The Life-boat Star of Hope was promptly...
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Dover, Kent. — On the morning of the 8th of May, 1955, two soldiers who were bird's-nesting at South Foreland, were cut off by the tide. The Sand- gate coastguard rang up the life-boat station at 11.22, and at noon the life- boat E.M.E.D...
Morford and Trubey
HAJBWIOH.—In answer to signals from the Cork light-vessel, the Sprmgwell Lifeboat put to sea at about 6.30 P.M., on the llth October, during a strong wind, thick weather and a high sea. She first proceeded to the Sunk light-vessel, and as...
Letters
Waves The cover picture of the winter 1982/ 83 journal, number 482, the picture of The White Rose of Yorkshire returning to sea off Whitby Harbour, depicts vividly the dangerous sea conditions our lifeboatmen continually face around our...
Category: Correspondence
Two Doctors Landed on Island
Two DOCTORS who were landed on Lundy Island to attend a woman who was seriously ill after a miscarriage have been commended by the Institution to the British Medical Association. They also received letters of appreciation from the Chairman...
Category: Articles
Ocean Star
Fenit, Co. Kerry - At 11.10 p.m. on 21st October, 1968, the honorary secretary was informed that a fishing boat was ashore at Waherees. The life-boat Hilton Briggs slipped her moorings at 11.45. It was low water.
By means...