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Coxswain Goes Overboard to Man on Cliff

Date: December 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 390

AT 3.20 on the afternoon of the 12th of July, 1959, the honorary secretary of the North Sunderland, Northumber- land, life-boat station, Mr. T. W. A.

Swallow, learnt from the coastguard that a canoe with one man in it had...

Category: Services

Ben Bhrackie

Date: June 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 392

Aith, Shetlands. At 12.54 on the afternoon of the 25th of March, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the trawler Ben Bhrackie of Aberdeen, which was then twenty-five miles north of Vee Skerries,...

Marseille

Date: November 1872

Volume: 08

Issue: 86

Again, on the 14th December, the barque Marseille stranded on Ted's Bank, during very thick and foggy weather, and in a heavy sea. The Life-boat proceeded out, but by the time she reached the vessel it was found she had floated with the...

On Weather Glasses

Date: October 1860

Volume: 04

Issue: 38

By Admiral Fitz-Roy, F.R.S.

As an excuse for writing rather positively about weather and its premonitory indications, I beg to say that nearly half a century ago I was taught by my father, a farming, gardening, and...

Category: Articles

Picked Up By Helicopter

Date: March 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 375

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Category: Photographs

SPECIAL DELIVERY

Date: Summer 2018

Volume: 61

Issue: 624 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2018

PRINCESS VICTORIA
Our feature on the Princess Victoria disaster in the spring issue evoked some memories for readers:

Pamela Miley writes:
Your article on the Princess Victoria brought back memories...

Category: Articles

Motor Life-Boats

Date: February 1914

Volume: 22

Issue: 251

IN accordance with our annual custom we give with this month's issue of the Journal a table showing the various motor Life-boats now on the coast, or under construction; and in this connexion we print, by the courtesy of The Times, an...

Category: Articles

Letters

Date: Autumn 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 562

Bravery endures Thank you for the autumn issue of the magazine.

The article on Henry Shrimp Davies was of great interest to me: my brother was a crew member of the SS English Trader on that fateful night and at the age of...

Category: Correspondence

None

Date: Autumn 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 486

Cut off by tide TENBY COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Tenby lifeboat station at 1945 on Sunday May 15,1983, that two people were cut off by the tide at Freshwater East, westward along the coast. Five minutes later the...

Another Foresters' Life-Boat

Date: December 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 328

ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET SIR ROGER KEYES, BT., G.C.B., K.C.V.O., C.M.G., D.S.O., D.C.L., M.P., named at Shering- ham on 18th July a new motor life-boat, presented to the Institution by the Ancient Order of Foresters in com- memoration of its own...

Category: Donations