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The S.S. Corcrest, of London

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

MARCH 7TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

About 4.30 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that Humber Radio had picked up a message from the S.S. Corcrest, of London.

She was aground on the Haisborough Sands and...

Trapped in the Thames

Date: Spring 2014

Volume: 61

Issue: 607 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2014

When a man’s oldest friend fell into the River Thames moments after his beloved dog ran away, could anyone rescue his two best pals?

It was a bitterly cold evening on 15 January when...

Category: Articles

A Sailing Dinghy (1)

Date: December 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 344

A LONG SEARCH IN FOG Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— At 8.35 in the evening of the 17th of August, 1947, the Filey coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy, in which two men had put out fishing at 2.0 in the afternoon, should have...

Accounts of Services by Life-boats (1)

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

Launches 18. Lives Rescued 7.

FEB. 11TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO.

WEXFORD. At 9.55 P.M. a telephone message was received that the Coningbeg Lightvessel had signalled a passing steamer that she wanted the...

Category: Services

Elephant

Date: February 1871

Volume: 08

Issue: 79

The tubular life-boat was likewise the means of rendering good service to another shipwrecked crew on the 19th October.

During the previous night a very severe gale had swept over Liverpool and its neigh- bourhood, and...

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Date: Autumn 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 510

Swimmer saved by lifeboat crew A short but dramatic rescue in which three members of Hastings lifeboat station (one of them the coxswain of the station's Mersey class lifeboat) went into the water to save a young man in danger of being...

The Fishing Fleet

Date: February 1905

Volume: 19

Issue: 215

The Life - boat Queensbury was launched about 7.30 A.M. on the morning of the 9th June to render assistance to the fishing fleet, which had to return to harbour on account of the weather.

The cobles left for the fishing...

Obituaries

Date: Winter 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 519

With deep regret we record the following deaths: Please Note Regretfully, only coxswains and branch and guild officials with a minimum of 10 years service can now be accepted for inclusion in the Obituaries column of THE...

Category: Obituaries

Books

Date: Winter 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 511

Some recent publications reviewed Mumbles Lifeboat by Carl Smith, published by Sou'wester Books at £3.50 ISBN 09515281 06 The history of the Mumbles lifeboat station is a long and gallant one, and the author has captured both the...

Category: Articles

Bye-Laws of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution

Date: May 1880

Volume: 11

Issue: 116

I. THE Annual General Meeting prescribed by the Charter shall be held on the 4th day of March, or as soon after as may be convenient, and the same and all other General Meetings shall be held at such time and place as the Committee of Manage...

Category: Articles