LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Severn
Length 17m (55ft 9in) Beam 5.5m (18ft) Displacement 37.5 tonnes Speed 25 knots Range 250 n. miles Crew 6 Construction FRC. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing community
This is the scene that greeted the crew of Exmouth’s relief Mersey class lifeboat Fisherman's Friend, responding to a shout on 26 November 2008. The fishing vessel Aleyna had overturned 26 miles south east of the Devon town and her crew...
Category: Articles
Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the Year 1901-1902
SUMMARY ." .u, ,f,ff&vr- ended the. je*& Jane, 190Z, tkeNwnber of"Vessels lost or dawagedon-the coasts.and~m the, seas ofttui Vnrted Kingdom incljuduijcases of-rraxtor damarfe- ffOS 41Z&an i die Ijtss of Life, as fat-...
Category: Charts
No. 21
CLOVELLY, DEVON.—A member of the Local Committee having observed what he took to be a signal of distress from a vessel in Barnstable Bay about 10 P.M.
on 28th April, reported it to the Coastguard, and after consulting the...
Bronze Medal for Weymouth
AT the beginning of June the twin-screw motor yacht Mite (a converted naval motor launch 110 feet long) was coming up Channel on her way from Malta to London. On the 6th of June, when she was fifteen miles west of Portland Bill, both her...
Category: Services
The Fundraisers
CAMPAIGN h LIH Rt AL ALL Somerset branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) held its annual festival at Minehead last year - raising over £1,000 for local good causes.
Minehead lifeboat guild was a major beneficiary...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 2nd April, 1868.—THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Category: Committee
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
Sea Fury
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of April.
1955. the life-boat coxswain reported that he had seen a yacht in Hilbre Swash and thought she would be in a dangerous position if the weather...
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MAN TAKEN TO HOSPITAL At 3.15 p.m. on I9th November, 1965, a local doctor asked the honorary secretary for the services of the life-boat to take a man with a haemorrhage to the mainland for hospital treatment. The life-boat Mary Stanford,...