LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Washed off pier A MEMBER of Amble ILB crew, Keith Stuart, was on his way home at about 1715 on Friday August 19, 1977, when he heard a helicopter working in the area off the south pier. Bystanders were shouting that a boy was in the water....
Letters
THE JOURNAL 0 I feel that I cannot let the July edition of your journal pass without comment. I would have thought that the object of a publication named THE LIFE-BOAT would have been to give ne vs on developments, e.g. the article by Lieut....
Category: Correspondence
Cogswell Harrison
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Navena
Standing by in Hurricane HAVING RECEIVED information from the Coastguard at 0618 on Thursday, December 6, 1973, that the trawler Navena was ashore on the rocks north of Copinsay Light, the Kirkwall(Orkneys) honorary secretary asked for...
Hasselo
Signals of distress from the Middle Lightship were observed on the morning of the 19th January. The same Life-boat was launched and proceeded to a schooner which was found to be sunk with the lower masts' heads out of water. As no one...
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Swimmers rescued MABLETHORPE iLB deputy launching authority was informed by a council lifeguard at 1458 on August 6, 1975, that there were two swimmers in difficulties off the 'pipe tunnel', an outfall pipe protected by a groyne,...
Functional Clothing
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Scotia
LYDD, KENT.—The David Hulett Lifeboat was launched at 9 P.M. on the 3rd November, signals of distress having been shown by the barquentine Scotia, of Ayr, bound from Aruba for London, withphosphate rock, which had stranded off No. 1 Battery,...
Canoes
GIRL RESCUED Exmouth, South Devon. At 5.25 p.m. on 17th April, 1965, two canoes were reported in trouble off Langstone Rock near Dawlish. The life-boat Michael Stephens was launched at 6.10 in a northwesterly gale and moderate sea. The...
Welcome
Not a dry eye in the boathouse
Lifeboats mean a lot to our volunteers. In this issue we join the emotional Wicklow crew, saying farewell to the last Tyne class lifeboat in the fleet (page 18). It’s time for the much-loved...
Category: Articles