LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Prince Ivanhoe (1)
Prince Ivanhoe THE PLEASURE STEAMER Prince Ivanhoe with a crew of 18 and 450 passengers was on a cruise from Minehead to the Welsh Coast on Monday August 3, 1981, when, at 1536. she struck anunderwater obstruction off Port...
Dobell
— At 5.30 P.M. on 25th September it was reported to the Honorary Secretary that the little fishing smack Dobell, of Carnarvon, was out in Barmouth Bay and was making for port, the weather having suddenly become squally and boisterous, and...
Happy Home, Florence and Ross Gill
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 8.15 on the evening of the 9th of February, 1953, the coxswain learned from the skipper of the fishing boat Happy Home that the motor fishing drifter Florence, of Glandore, was burning flares south- east of...
Fluid Compasses
ITS our last January Number we gave a short account and illustration of the Boat's Fluid Compass, adopted by this Institution, and in this Number we insert an interesting paper on the " Mariner's Compass," with which we...
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Willie Parr
WILLIE PARR Lifeboatman Willie Parr* sailed into history when a brewery decided to immortalise him.
*The story of Willie Parr appeared in the Manchester edition of the Daily Mirror on December 13,...
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Under fire
Even if their crews aren’t aboard, boat fires can pose a serious risk to sea users and the environment – a challenge that volunteers in Devon faced twice in 5 days
The African Queen is one of...
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Eclipse
FBASEBBUKGH.—At 8.30 A.M. on the 25th of October the schooner Eclipse, of Dundee, bound from Suaderland to Little Ferry with coal, showed signals of distress while riding in the bay. The Cosmo and Charles Life-boat proceeded to her...
Kalavala and Camelot
Family rescued Nearly three months later, on the evening of Friday April 27, 1984, the station's own 44ft Waveney class lifeboat, Ralph and Joy Swann, back on station, was called out to the aid of a 30ft motor cruiser, Kalavala. She had...
Attempt to Steal a Life-Boat
Seven German prisoners of war, who had been wotking on tine beach at Wells, Norfolk, removing coast defences, and had seen the life-boat launched on exercise, stole a lorry from a car park and drove to the life-boat house on the night of...
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Joan Maureen
Breaking up SOLENT COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Selsey lifeboat station at 2051 on Wednesday October 5, 1983, that red flares had been sighted close inshore off Selsey Bill and requested that the 15ft 6in D class inflatable...