LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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INJURED BOY RESCUED AFTER FALL FROM CLIFF Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire. At 7.25 on the evening of the llth March, 1962, the coxswain received a message from the Abersoch fire brigade that a boy had fallen over the cliff at Cilan Head, and that...
Pensions for Widows and Orphans
As our readers are aware, it has been the practice of the Institution, from its earliest days, to make substantial grants to the widows and children of the gallant men who have lost their lives "on active service" in the cause of...
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After 54 Years
The Institution has received a gift from two ladies in Toronto, Canada, who wrote that they remembered seeing the Walton-on-the-Naze liferboat going out on service in the spring of 1889..
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Al Kwather I (1)
Arduous service for two lifeboats called to Ro-Ro ferry in severe weatherCoxswain David Kennett of Yarmouth lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for gallantry for the rescue of two men from a merchant vessel in winds...
Schools for Sailors. Second Article
IN my last communication I endeavoured to discuss the question of Schools for Sailors in its general bearings: I now proceed to give a special application of it with regard to a district with which I am familiar—I mean the sea-coast of Wales...
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Resurga
At about 5.45 A.M. on the 15th February flares were observed by the Coastguard about five miles E.N.E. of Cromer, and he promptly reported to the Coxswain of the Life-boat Louisa Heartwell. On arriving at the vessel, which proved to be the...
Lassie
Arbroath, Angus. At nine o'clock on the evening of the 2nd of March, 1959, the fishing boat Bairns Pride left Arbroath to look for the fishing boat Lassie, which was overdue from the fishing grounds. At 9.50 she sent a radio message...
Foreign Life-Boat Societies
DUHIXG 1952 foreign life-boats went out to the help of 12 British vessels and rescued over 40 lives from them.
Belgium Belgian life-boats went to the help of two British yachts, one of which was towed into harbour and the...
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Two French Vessels -Augustine & La Jeune Erneste
On the 15th December, during a heavy S.S.E. gale, two French vessels, mistaking this harbour for that of Portsmouth, struck on the sands at East [ Looe and West Looe respectively. The ' Manley Wood life-boat was soon launched...
Dolphin
Margate, Kent.—At 1.5 in the after- noon of the 5th of June, 1949, the coastguard telephoned information re- ceived from Herne Bay that a motoryacht was ashore on the Hook Sand- bank flying a distress signal, and the life-boat Lord...