LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Life-Boat Stations and New Boats
FOWEY, CORNWALL.—A life-boat has been recently stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION at Polkerris, near Fowey, the cost of the same and of a substantial boat-house being defrayed chiefly by WILLIAM RASHLEIGH, Esq., J. F. DULLER,...
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"On Behalf of All Troops"
IN the course of two months the Institution has received cheques for £500 from the colonel at Calais commanding J12 Transit Camp of the British Forces in France. They come with the message: " On behalf of all troops who have passed...
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Pride of Erin (1)
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 3.27 on the afternoon of the 31st of January, 1957, the Southend coastguard tele- phoned to say the police had been informed that flashing lights had been seen from a vessel in Machrihanish Bay. The life-boat...
Reserve Fleets of Life-Boats
IN order to be ready for any emergency on the coast the Institution keeps at its Storeyard at Poplar, on the Thames, a Eeserve Fleet of Life-boats. One of these Boats can be sent at a moment's notice to any place on the coast where the...
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Saucey Jake
On the evening of the 23rd October, the Life-boat Abraham Thomas was launched, through a heavy surf, to the rescue of the crew of the schooner Saucy Jack, of Yarmouth, which vessel parted from her anchors, from, the violence of the...
Yacht in peril
20 March: Lymington and Yarmouth Five people onboard a 12m yacht, Sea Jay IV, called for help when her mast collapsed and went overboard after catastrophic gear failure in high winds off Hurst Castle. Lymington...
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Libera
Poolbeg, Co. Dublin.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 28th of August, 1954, the Dublin Port and Docks Board telephoned to say the Poolbeg light- house-keeper had reported that two men in a small yacht near North Bull lighthouse were...
Kayaker on a knife edge
On an apparently ordinary day at the beach last Summer, a near tragedy was unfolding
It was just before midday on 30 August 2011 and a lone kayaker was enjoying the water off Sandsend,...
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Torbay, Devon - At 12.20 a.m. on I4th May, 1967, it was reported that a car had been seen to run over the headland close to the look-out. The life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent slipped her moorings, with the small boarding boat in tow, at...
Theodoron
Blyth, and Amble, Northumberland.
At 2.50 on the morning of the 26th of June, 1958, the coastguard informed the Blyth honorary secretary that a fisher- man had reported that his two sons, who were out in the coble...