LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Operational changes in North East EnglandEvery five years each stretch of the UK and Irish coastlines undergoes a Coast Review. Senior RNLI operational personnel and trustees visit the lifeboat stations and assess whether the right class,...
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Silver Night
Douglas, and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—At eight o'clock in the morn- ing of the 5th of September, 1951, the Douglas police reported to the Douglas life-boat station that the local fishing coble Silver Night was on the rocks at Port...
A Fishing Boat
Walton and Frinton, Essex. — 30th October, 1938. A fishing boat with three on board had capsized, but two coastguards rescued one man who was clinging to her. His two companions could not be found.—Rewards, £11 15s..
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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...
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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...