LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Lifeboats on the streets Dublin suffered from some severe flooding on Friday, 1 March and the RNLI stepped in to help to evacuate people from their homes as the water steadily rose. A combination of heavy rain, high winds, the highest tide...
Seddon
Stornoway, Hebrides. At 9.30 on the night of the 8th of April, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was reported ashore near Goat Island. The coast- guard confirmed the report at 10.20, saying a trawler was...
Boxing Day Dip
This incriminating picture of Rab Rice, Larne lifeboat mechanic, and his 'girlfriend' was taken at the East Antrim Boat Club sponsored swim on Boxing Day 1999.
The event saw 23 swimmers from the boat club, local... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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MISSING ON CLIFFS At 10.32 p.m. on I2th August, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boy was missing on Amroth cliffs. There was a smooth sea with very little wind. The tide had been ebbing for one hour when the...
Ploughboy
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—During the afternoon of the 27th October, 1938, the local fishing boat Ploughboy, with two men on board, was caught at sea by bad weather. A moderate and increasing N.E. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The motor...
Foxglove and Faith Star
Whitby, Yorkshire. — Shortly after nine o'clock on the morning of the 29th of November, 1950, while the Whitby fishing fleet was at sea, it was reported that a strong northerly gale had developed, causing a heavy swell.
Ex-Coxswain Sydney J. Harris, of Gorleston
Mr. Sydney J. Harris, an ex-Coxswain of the Gorleston Life-boat, died on 20th June last at the age of seventy-one. In 1921, when he ceased to be Coxswain, he had served in that capacity for twenty-nine years, and had previously been second...
Category: Obituaries
B.E.M. for Scottish Coxswain.
Coxswain James Thomson, of Campbeltown, Argyllshire, has won both the Institution's silver medal and the British Empire Medal for rescuing the crew of a steamer in the blizzard which swept the west coast ot Scotland in the middle of...
Category: Articles
Italian Honour for St. Mary's, Scilly
THE Italian Government lias recog- nised the gallantry of the Life-boat Crew at St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, and of the others who took part in the rescue of the crew of the Italian steamer Iscibo on 27th October, 1927, by the award of...
Category: Awards
Three Cobles
AUGUST 6TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning the weather became very bad. Three cobles were at sea and the coxswain decided to launch the motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina Whitley. She left at 11.10. A...