LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Three savedjrprn cliffsjn joint rescue effort Lifeboats, a helicopter and a cliff rescue team were called in to save three people who were trapped on steep, slippery cliffs near Newquay in Cornwall on 26 March...
Eemshorn
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 12.45 early on the morning of the 23rd October, 1961, Anglesey radio station informed the honorary secretary that the cargo on board the motor vessel Eemshorn of Delfzijl had shifted and that the vessel was listing...
Ada
A. severe gale from the S. with, a very heavy sea was experienced on the 13th October. At about 7 P.M. signals of distress were observed in the direction of the Scroby Sand. No steam-tug was available, and, in the opinion of many of those...
Some Ways of Raising Money
Once an RNLI supporter, always a RNLI supporter! When Mrs J. B. Wilson, who had worked within the ranks of Colwyn Bay branch since 1965, settled with her family in Hong Kong she asked HQ if she could start a branch there. With the dedicated...
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A Rowing Boat
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — About 12.45 on the afternoon of the 23rd of July, 1952, the Clacton coastguard saw a man in difficulties in the sea.
He was one of a party of four men in a rowing boat. An oar had been lost...
Blue Star, Avocette 2, Islay Mist, Lady Llamedos and Amie
Breezy conditions lead to six calls in one day for Plymouth's Arun Plymouth's Arun class lifeboat City of Plymouth was kept extremely busy on 9 August 1994 when she received no less than six calls - launching first at 0048 and...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
HOWTH, Co. DUBLIN.—The Life-boat on this station has been replaced by a new 10-oared Life-boat, 34 feet long and 8 feet wide, constructed according to the latest designs. The cost of the new Life-boat, which is named the Tom and Ida,...
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Bluff
The steamer Bluff, of Durban, bound from Grimsby to South Africa, where she was intended for the fishing trade, stranded on the Cross R'idge, in hazy weather, on the 5th March, and at 5.50 the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was launched to...
Little Old Lady
Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.10 in the morning of the 2nd of February, 1950, the Jury Gap coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was burning a flare and flying a large ensign two miles south of the Gap. Most of the life- boatmen were...
Kate
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—The yawl Kate, of Liverpool, in trying to enter the harbour on the 1st September in a strong breeze from the S.W. and a rough sea, was driven close to the North pier, A steam-tug took the yacht's tow-rope, but it...