LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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FATAL CLIFF FALL At 2.20 p.m. on ist March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of a police report that a man had fallen over the cliff between The Needles and Freshwater Bay. The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe left at...
Caland
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—On the 30th of April, 1957, Lloyd's agent telephoned to say that the motor vessel Caland, of Rotterdam, on passage from Grangemouth to Brest, had a sick man on board and was making for Yarmouth...
A Rowing Boat (6)
JULY 2ND. - COVERACK, CORNWALL.
A rowing boat with a man aboard had been reported missing, but nothing could be found.
- Rewards, £16 11s. (See Porthoustock, "Services by Shore-boats,” page...
Sybil of Goole
On the 13th December, the sloop Sybil, of Goole, got ashore on Thorpeness, when the life-boat was launched to her aid, and landed her crew of 3 men in safety: 1 man was washed out of the life-boat by a heavy surf.
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JANUARY 11TH. - PEEL, AND PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN. Amber-coloured rockets had been seen and the Peel life-boat went out. Later a red flare was seen in the direction of the life-boat and the Port Erin life-boat put out, but nothing was found.-...
Gallant Service Rendered By the Holy Island Lifeboat "Grace Darling" on the 13th February, 1896
ON the morning of the 13th February all the Holy Island fishing-boats, with one exception, were out fishing, when the sea I rose rapidly, and at 9 o'clock the Rev. D. Bryson, Vicar of Holy Island and Honorary Secretary of the Holy Island...
Category: Articles
Two Rigid Inflatable Boats
D Class rescues man in shallow water and heavy breaking seasJohn Pearson, helmsman of Whitby's D class inshore lifeboat, has been awarded the RNLI's Bronze Medal for his seamanship and bravery following a service in conditions at the...
Meda
At about 9.30 P.M. on the 8th May, during an easterly gale and very heavy sea, Thomas W. Rowntree, Coxswain of the No. 3 Life-boat, Horatio Brand, observed a schooner approaching the harbour, and shortly afterwards she made a...
The Admiralty Drifter Eminent
A DEPLOBABIE accident, which resulted j in the loss of two lives, occurred at; Fraserburgh, oa the 28th April. The j Admiralty drifter Eminent, which left: Buryhead the previous night, bound for j Fraserburgh to be " demobilised,"...
Nicolaou Virginia
MARCH 27TH - 29TH. - TENBY, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. In the early morning of the 27th the Greek steamer Nicolaou Virginia, bound from Bahia Blanca to Glasgow with a cargo of grain, ran ashore on the rocks at Flimston Head and was badly...