LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Selsey, Sussex. At 4.35 on the after- noon of the 20th of July, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that three bathers were in diffi- culties off Selsey Bill point. At 4.40 the life-boat Canadian Pacific put out in a...
A Boat (1)
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 2.16 on the afternoon of the 18th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat had capsized near the West Princess buoy.
The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched...
Cape Nelson
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 2.45 p.m. on loth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Cape Nelson, which was expected off the Tyne at five o'clock, wished to land a sick seaman. As soon as the...
Pantarali
Sheringham, Norfolk - At 8.42 a.m.
on ist July, 1966 a message was received that the m.v. Pantarali, lying off the Dudgeon lightvessel, had a sick crew member on board who required medical attention. An R.A.F. helicopter...
A Motor Boat (1)
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 12.20 a.m. on I5th June, 1967, a report was received that shouts for help were coming from the sea off Sandycover Point. The life-boat John F. Kennedy slipped her moorings at 12.35 m a calm sea. The tide was...
The S.S. Trsat
SEPTEMBER 7TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 8.57 P.M. the Kinnaird Head coastguard reported that a vessel was being attacked by aeroplanes several miles to the N.E. of the head. She was the S.S. Trsat, of Cardiff (late of Jugoslavia),...
Changing Times
Debut of the Mersey fast carriage boatThe RNLl's latest class of lifeboat was named the Mersey when the new, fast carriage-launched lifeboat was unveiled at a special press launch at Hastings lifeboat station on 14...
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Three Medal Services. Donna Nook, Lincolnshire; Humber, Yorkshire; Gorleston, Suffolk
ON 25th November, just before eight o'clock in the morning, the Donna Nook Life-boat went out in answer to signals of distress. The conditions could not have been worse. A whole gale was blowing from the north. A tremendous sea was...
Category: Medals
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Society of Lloyd's Register
CAn event interesting to many in the shipping world took place on the 5th of October in the presence of the Com- mittee of Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping Society. The whole of their extensive staff of Surveyors, in this...
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