LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Miriam
Wicklow. At 10.30 on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1959, the local fishing boat Miriam had not returned although she had left harbour at four o'clock. As the weather was deteriorating the life-boat /. W. Archer was launched at...
Dimcyl (1)
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 6.30 on the evening on the llth of August, 1951, the coastguard reported that the motor yacht Dimcyl was flying a distress signal about two miles north of Lowestoft. She seemed to be trying to make harbour against a...
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An Admiralty Barge
FEBRUARY 15TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 4.35 P.M. the coastguard reported that the naval authorities wished the life-boat crew to be assembled as an Admiralty barge was in difficulties in Peterhead Bay. An hour later the crew were...
Coxswain William Fleming, G.C.
WILLIAM FLEMING, former coxswain of the Gorleston life-boat, died on the 30th of September, 1954, at the age of 89.
He was born in 1865 and first served as a member of the Gorleston crew before he was twenty. He became...
Category: Obituaries
A Twenty-Mile Tow Off the Kerry Coast
AT 4.15 on the afternoon of the 13th of May, 1953, the honorary secretary of the Valentia, Co. Kerry, life-boat station heard from the Valentia radio station, that the French trawler Liber- ator, of Calmaret, had lost her propeller and...
Category: Services
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Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 19th of December, 1954, a message was received from Mizen Head asking if the life-boat would take a relief keeper and stores to the Inish- tearaght Rock lighthouse. At eleven o'clock...
Naoim Cait
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 5.40 on the morning of the 25th of June, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message from Valentia radio that the fishing vessel Naoim Cait required help north- west of Tearaght lighthouse. At six o'clock the...
Panachrandos
Walmer, Ken*.—At 5.50 P.M. on the * 19th October, 1939, eight hours after the life-boat had brought back the doctor from the Dutch steamer Mirza, a message was received from the doctor that the senior naval officer, Ramsgate, wished him to...
Show of strength
The RNLI's history is full of dramatic twists and turns – and Alan Tyson's mission to weave them into a play is an interesting yarn in itself
‘Now hear ye all of this, good men of Bamburgh,’ shouted the cloaked man...
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