LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
56 Days on the Atlantic
THE 61-feet former Padstow life-boat Princess Mary, now the converted life-boat Aries, crossed the Atlantic in both directions in 1954. She was commanded by her owner, Mr. Cecil Harcourt-Smith, and had a crew of four.
The...
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1886: the Wreck of the Mexico By Frank Kilroy
ON THE NIGHT of December 9, 1886, the German barque Mexico, bound from Liverpool for Guayaquil, Ecuador, with a general cargo and a crew of 12, was wrecked in the Ribble Estuary on the north west coast of England.
Three...
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An Aeroplane (25)
MARCH 25TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 10.55 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had come down in the sea one mile off Sandsend and that her crew had taken to their rubber dinghy. All the fishing boats...
A Steamer (24)
SEPTEMBER 27TH. - GOURDON, KINCARDINSHIRE.
A steamer had stranded, but her crew were rescued from the shore by the coastguard life-saving apparatus from Johnshaven. - Rewards, £25 15s. 6d..
Ben Meidie (1)
Wick, Caithness-shire, and Longhope, Orkneys. At 11.26 on the night of the 7th of October, 1958, the coastguard at Kirkwall informed the honorary secre- tary at Longhope that the trawler Ben Meidie of North Shields was ashore on the Pentland...
The Late Charlie Cocks Recently
The Late Charlie Cocks Recently. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fundraisers
Bruno backs the lifeboats Harwich lifeboatmen had a very special visitor in August, when Frank Bruno came to town promoting the wacky gameshow 'It's a Knockout'. The former heavyweight boxing champ was backing the RNLI's...
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None (16)
MARCH 29TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE, AND BEAUMARIS, AND MOELFRE, ANGLESEY. A report had been received that an aeroplane was in distress and another that three men had baled out of an aeroplane, presumably the same one, but nothing could...
Life-Boat Calendar for 1929
THE Institution is again issuing a Lifeboat Calendar for the forthcoming year. It feels that there is no better way of keeping the work of the Lifeboat Service continually before the public from the first day of the year to the last, and it...
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An Aeroplane (76)
MAY 2ND. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, and part of it was above water. Attempts were made to recover the bodies of her crew, but they were unsuccessful. - Rewards, £7 12s. 6d.
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