LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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SEA Check under way The RNLI's Sea Safety team has been helping to educate sea users of all kinds since the initiative was first launched some four years ago, but it is now breaking new ground with its SEA Check scheme.
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H.M. Submarine Universal
FEBRUARY 4TH - 6TH. - ST. DAVID’S AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE, AND NEW QUAY, AND ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE.
H.M. submarine Universal was on her way to the breaker’s yard. Late on the night of the 3rd of February her...
A Sailing Surf Board
Capsize TWO BOYS, aged 17 and 15, who had set out from Cove Sailing Club on a 15ft sailing surf board capsized off Baron's Point, lower Loch Long, at about 1240 on Sunday April 20 and were unable to right their boat because water was get...
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
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H.R.H. The PRINCE OF WALKE, K.G.
PRESIDENT OF THE LADIES' AUXILIARIES—H.R.H. The PRINCESS or WALES.
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St John
The Life-boat James Stevens No. 16 saved the yawl St. John, belonging to Ballinagoul, and her crew of four hands during a strong W.N.W. gale with heavy squalls on the 13th January. The vessel had been trawling near Ballina- courty...
A Small Boat (4)
JUNE 2ND. - RAMSGATE, KENT. Early in the morning the owner of the Guildford Hotel, Sandwich, reported to the police that his son and another boy had put out in a small boat the previous night. They had not returned, and the boat could be...
Lavinia
CAISTER.—On the 12th November, at about 11.40 A.M., the brig Lavinia, of Guernsey, bound thence to Sunderland, in ballast, was seen to be between the Scroby and Cross Sands with colours flying union downwards. The Covent Garden Life-boat...
Supertramp
Three saved from grounded yacht in rojjgh conditions The three crew members aboard St Bees' Atlantic earned a letter of thanks from Michael Vlasto the RNLI's Chief .of Operations following a difficult service to the yacht Supenramp...
Three Saved After Motor Boat Capsizes
ABOUT 6.30 on the evening of the 15th July, 1962, a party of four people and a dog put to sea from Axmouth harbour, near Seaton, in a 12-foot 6-inch motor boat driven by a 5 horse-power out- board engine. After about an hour the man in...
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Ahto
On January 14th the Coastguard reported what appeared to them to be the sudden disappearance of a small yacht off the Skerries Bell Buoy. The time was then 5.35 P.M., and the Motor Life-boat George Shee put out.
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