LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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MAY 13TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 3.40 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a small vessel was in distress off the South Stack. A squally south-west wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat A.E.D...
Alliance
PADSTOW.—Shortly, after midnight on the 16th October, the Life-boat was launched, a messenger on horseback having arrived from Trevose Head, and reported that a vessel was showing signals of distress to the eastward of Gullan. A terrific...
Endeavour,Progress, Easter Morn,Prosperity,Venus, et al
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 18th February, 1939, a fresh N.W. wind was blowing, with a very rough sea. It was breaking heavily from the Pier Ends to the Rock Buoy, and anxiety was felt for the safety of nine of the local motor...
Olympic Dreams
RNLI Lifeguard Kerry Blewett has been selected to train for the 2012 Olympics as part of Team GB. Kerry entered a UK Sport and English Institute of Sport talent recruitment drive to find female athletes to take up sprint...
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Empire Queen of Dublin
On the 5th August, the ship Empire Queen, of Dublin, was stranded during foggy weather on the south end of the Arldovv Bank. The life-boat Alfred and Ernest, sta- tioned at Courtown, went out, in reply to signals of distress, and at the...
The S.S. Turrethill
— On the 13th May the s.s. Turrethill, of Newcastle- on - Tyne, whilst bound from Goole with a cargo of coal to Poole, Dorset- shire, capsized when off Southwold. A strong W.N.W. wind was blowing at the time, with a rough sea, and unhappily...
Myrtle
Howth, Co. Dublin,—At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 15th of October, 1949, the life-boat R'.P.L. was launched for exercise in a rough sea, with a fresh south-westerly wind blowing, and shortly after noticed a fishing boat one mile east of...
Life-Boat Postage Stamps
THE General Post Office is issuing a set of postage stamps to mark the ninth international life-boat conference being held in Edinburgh in June 1963. The stamps will be in the denominations of 2|d., 4d. and Is. 6d. and will be on sale...
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Mourne Lass
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT MARYPORT OCTOBER 9TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND. During the afternoon a strong southerly wind was blowing. Towards the end of the afternoon it veered to west-north-west, growing rapidly stronger, and just before dark it...
The "Winston Churchill"
THERE are at present on the coast seven motor life-boats which have been given and endowed by the Civil Service Life-boat Fund. An eighth is to be added to them before the end of the year, the 46-feet Watson cabin life-boat which is now...
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