LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The shape of things to come
FCB2 is the RNLI’s experimental lifeboat, which is being developed to replace the Mersey class. As we reported last year, the hull proved inadequate in rough weather. A new hull shape has now been chosen, and the RNLI hopes the first...
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Pier rescue The Redcar relief Atlantic 21 lifeboat Himley Hall was returning from a false alarm when the Coastguard asked the crew to investigate a report of children in difficulty at the end of Saltburn Pier. The lifeboat arrived quickly...
Vernicos Giorgos
Tugs aground ST ANNE'S COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of St David's lifeboat station at 2020 on Sunday October 18, 1981, that the tug Vernicos Giorgos, with two other tugs in tow, had a rope round her propeller and was...
The Institution and the War
WE have the pleasure of giving a list, brought up to date, of the Officers and members of the Staff, or of Permanent Crews, of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION who have been called up or who have volunteered for service with His...
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Nancy
Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 10.10 on the night of the 1st of July, 1959, a report was received that flares had been seen off Black Rocks, Penmon. At 10.25 the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched in a rough sea. There was a...
Admiral Mitford and Thomas & Mary
On the 12th Feb. two of the Filey fishing vessels, the Admiral Mitford, and the Thomas and Mary, which were in the Bay, sent their small boats ashore with fish, leaving only a man and a boy in each yawl. While the men were occupied on the...
Thomas Thresher
Thurso, Caithness-shire. — The Grimsby trawler Thomas Thresher, bound for Iceland, put into Scrabster harbour at 9 P.M. on the 2nd April to get medical attention for one of her crew.
She left again at 11.15 P.M. and shortly...
Clacton Second Coxswain Drowned.
Frank Castle, second coxswain of the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat for 19 years, lost his life in a gale in April. The life-boat had gone out to a barge, and the coxswain put Castle, the bowman and the assistant motor mechanic on board to help...
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S.S. Kollskegg
JULY 21ST. - SWANAGE, DORSET. At 6.14 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel on fire some ten miles or more to the S.E. A westerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate swell. The motor life-boat Thomas Markby was launched at 6.27 P.M., and...
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