LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cerealia
Crew's 'fine teamwork' during 16-hour service The crew of Wells Mersey class lifeboat Doris M. Mann of Ampthill have been commended following a 16-hour service which 'was dominated by a fine display of teamwork' in winds...
Two Small Vessels, Whim and Saucy Lass
Again on the 14th November, two small vessels, the pilot cutter IVhim, and the lugger Saucy Lass, were seen to be at anchor on the weather side of the Holm Sand, in an extremely dangerous position, and with sig- nals of distress flying. A...
Support Out-Standing
Thank you to everyone who organised and supported SOS events around the UK and RoI on 30 January. SOS day is the RNLI’s biggest fundraising day, and this year’s event was well supported in schools, companies and clubs, and RNLI fundraising...
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Life-Boat Accidents
THE disaster which befell the Kingstown No. 2 Life-boat on the 24th December, 1895, naturally turns people's thoughts to the subject of Life-boat accidents.
Although the proportion of accidents to the launching of the...
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Naval Launch No. 173
Sennen Cove.
On Saturday, the 29th November, 1919, three naval motor launches left •Queenstown, escorted by a destroyer, oa their way to Southampton to be paid off. During the night the wind got up from S.S.W., and by...
Hille Oldendorff
Sennen Cove, Cornwall - At 11.20 a.m. on 30th March, 1966, the port medical officer at Penzance informed the honorary secretary that the m.v. Hille Oldendorff, of Lubeck, which was about nine miles north west of the Longships lighthouse,...
Ships' Logs
AMONGST the many appliances which con- tribute to the safe navigation of a ship, none is of more importance than the small instrument termed " a log," by which the distance run can be approximately ascer- tained from day to day, or...
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Fisherman plucked to safety by D class as night falls T Lifeboats he three crew members of Sunderland's D class inshore lifeboat received a framed letter of thanks from David Acland, the RNLI's Chairman following a service in poor...
Katie Marie, and Harriet and John
At 1.10 P.M. on the 6th May the Coastguard reported that four of the Palling fishing-boats, which had been overtaken by a strong S.E. breeze, rough sea and heavy surf, were running towards Cromer, and trying to find a safe landing-place, the...
Cornucopia
Caister, Norfolk.—About 5.15 on the morning of the 21st of August, 1951, the Great Yarmouth coastguard tele- phoned that a ship was ashore on the Scroby Sands, but -not in immediate danger. At 6.15 the life-boat Jose Neville was launched in...