LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Feature: Rescue Statistics
Saving lives with data Peter Bradley, Staff Officer (Special Projects) in the RNLI Operations department, reveals how complex 'number crunching' underpins a successful lifesaving service Each issue of the Lifeboat includes detailed...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BALLANTRAE, N.B.—On the application of the local residents, a Life-boat station has been established at Ballantrae, a small village on the coast of Ayrshire, where Shipwrecks occasionally take place—three having occurred there, with loss of...
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A Trimaran
Capsized trimaran FOUR MINUTES after HM Coastguard had alerted Berwick-upon-Tweed crew and honorary secretary, at 1631 on May 31, 1975, to tell them that a trimaran had capsized 2\ cables outside the harbour entrance, the D class ILB was...
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 6th Aug. 1857. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
HOLYHEAD.—While a strong gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a heavy sea and rain, on the evening of the 6th Aug., 1900, the Coxswain of the Life-boat observed a barque dragging her anchors and driving towards the Nimrod rocks. He...
Category: Services
The Steamers Oxshott, Deerwood, Gallois, Taara, Aberhill and Paddy Hendly (2)
GOLD AND SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT CROMER AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON AUGUST 6TH. - 7TH. - CROMER, GT.
YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. On the night of the 5th of August,, 1941, a...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
SEAHAM, DURHAM.—Towards midnight on the 31st Dec., 1898, signals of distress at sea were observed off this place, and when the New Year broke, the Life-boat SJcynner was on her way to render help to the vessel which had displayed them. The...
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A Magnificent Service on the East Coast
As the Journal goes to press the reports have been received of a magnificent service on the East Coast on 21st and 22nd November, in which the Motor Life-boats at Cromer, Gorleston, and Southwold all took part. The Dutch oil-tanker Georgia...
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Regulars
BooKs Sea stories – new writing from the National Maritime Museum Various writers This intriguing collection encompasses tales of the remote and wild coastal landscapes of Orkney and the west of Ireland, Mediterranean mysteries, an ill-fated...
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The Steamers Oxshott, Deerwood, Gallois, Taara, Aberhill and Paddy Hendly (1)
GOLD AND SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT CROMER AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON AUGUST 6TH. - 7TH. - CROMER, GT.
YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. On the night of the 5th of August,, 1941, a...