LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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NOVEMBER 25TH. - SENNEN COVE PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORN: WALL. After a naval and air battle in the Channel some ten miles off Wolf Rock Light, these three life-boats were asked by the coastguard to go out and search for survivors.
The Institution's Expenditure at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1929.
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Category: Accounts
The Record of 1925
Terrible Winter Storms.
THE year 1925 was, until November, unusually calm, and this fact is reflected in the number of lives rescued, 383, as compared with 454 in 1924. la the last nine weeks of the year, however, there...
Category: Annual Reports
Altair
DONNA NOOK, LINCOLNSHIRE. — The Life-boat Rtehqrd was launched at 4.30 A.M., on the 19th January, a telephonemessage having been received from Saltfleet reporting a vessel in distress. On reaching the spot it was ascertained that a steamer...
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WOMAN BROUGHT TO MAINLAND FOR EMERGENCY OPERATION Galway Bay. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 13th May, 1963, the local doctor asked for the services of the life-boat to take a woman, who was dangerously ill, from Aran to the...
Hoperidge
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWCASTLE JANUARY 19TH- 2 1 ST. - NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN. At 6.45 in the morning the motor life-boat at Newcastle, Co. Down, L. P. and St.
Helen, was launched in a blinding snow-storm to the help of the...
Our Johanna
All-night rescue of trawler and crew While others enjoyed a Saturday night out on the evening of 6 April 2002, the five-man crew of the fishing vessel Our Johanna were drifting, powerless, in heavy seasIt was shortly before 10pm that her...
Betty Sheader and Hilda II
Scarborough, Yorkshire. At noon on ist November, 1965, the weather was rapidly deteriorating and two open cobles were still at sea, so the life-boat James and Catherine MacFarlane, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a...
Avon
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 3.9 in the afternoon of the 17th of March, 1949, the Gorleston coastguard telephoned that the Great Yarmouth steam trawler^won, half a mile off the harbour, had asked for a boat to...
Lillian
TOW FOR CABIN CRUISER NEAR ROCKS Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 1.32 on the afternoon of the 17th October, 1962, the coastguard reported that a small cabin cruiser appeared to have broken down half a mile south of Boddam, and at 1.45 the...