LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Hurricane-force winds as two lifeboats search for missing diversThe rescue of two skin divers in appalling weather conditions has won Acting Coxswain James Dougal a Silver Medal for Gallantry. Weather and sea conditions during the service...
Fairy
CARNSORE—On the 19th December, the Life-boat Iris was launched to the assistance of the dandy Fairy, of Wexford, which vessel is employed as tender to the Tuskar lightship. Her mast had been carried away while wearing, during a fresh N.W....
An Aeroplane (14)
MAY 1 3TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At about 4.45 P.M. information was received that an aeroplane had come down in the sea off Blakeney Point. The weather was fine with a strong S.W. breeze and a choppy sea. An exercise of...
Gothic
Whilst the crew of the Life-boat J. C. Madge were assembling for an exercise launch on the 6th January, several vessels were seen running for shelter, as a strong westerly gale with heavy squalls was blowing. One of them, which proved to be...
Colonel T. H. Cornish, of Penzance
By the death on 22nd December, 1930, at the age of sixty-seven, of Colonel T. H. Cornish, the Town Clerk of Penzance, the Institution has lost one of its oldest Station Honorary Secretaries. Colonel Cornish was a great lover of the sea. He...
Category: Obituaries
Mary Ann Mandel
On the afternoon of the 16th November a N.E. gale sprang up, bringing with it a heavy sea, and caused the schooner Mary Ann Mandel, of Barrow, which was riding off Kings- downe, to get into a dangerous position.
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Life-boat 70-001, Bristol Channel - At 8.40 p.m. on I2th October, 1966, the staff-coxswain of the 70-foot life-boat was told that there was a sick man on the South Lundy lighthouse and asked if he could take a doctor to Lundy island. It was...
Stretched to breaking point
In near gale force winds, a large crabbing boat lost engine power and was drifting close to an offshore gas rig. Unable to anchor, due to underwater pipelines, she needed a tow to safety
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Category: Articles
Fishing Boats (1)
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. — At about 7 o'clock on the morning of the 3rd February, the fishing-boats went out and shot their lines. At 10.30 a strong gale from the N. sprung up, rendering it difficult for the boats to haul in their...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
LONGHOPE, ORKNEY ISLANDS. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Station at Longhope, on the south side of Hoy, one of the South Orkney Islands, where a lamentable ship- ! wreck, with loss of life, took place some '...
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