LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Onward
On the •morning of the 23rd October, at about 7 o'clock, the ketch Onward, of Montrose, was observed in the offing, and as there was a heavy sea on the bar, with scarcely any wind, it was realized that the vessel would incur...
Past and Present
50 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, October 1938 issue A New Medal for Gallantry SINCE the Institution was founded the head of the Sovereign has appeared on the obverse of the medals which it awards for gallantry. The first medals,...
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"Life-Boat Saturday, Illustrated."
A SECOND issue of "Life-boat Saturday, Illustrated," published by John Heywood, of Manchester, price 6d., is now ready.
This well-written and admirably got- up paper brims over with information relative to the...
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October (1)
PORTH HELLICK, SCILLY ISLES. At about 4 in the afternoon of the 4th June, 1942, a Tiger Moth aeroplane, the engine of which had failed, fell into the sea about fifty yards off the shore at Porth Hellick. The accident was seen by Mr. C....
Category: Services
Sea Victor and Prairie Schooner
Exhausted yachtsmen BRONZE MEDAL THE YACHT Sea Victor, built in Germany during the 1930s, had sailed from Exmouth on the morning of Friday May 2, 1986, on passage to Guernsey. By the evening of the following day after a rough crossing the...
News Cont
Appealing start The Crew Training Appeal is seeking funds to cover the cost of crew training at individual lifeboat stations and is approaching local businesses, trusts, and individuals for donations. It will cost some £20,000 for...
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Rhuddlan Castle
RAMSGATE.—At midnight on the 30th of March signals were fired by the Gull and Goodwin Lightships, and a flare was seen on the North Sand Head. The Bradford Life-boat stationed at Ramsgate put out in tow of the harbour steam-tug...
A Yacht
Family of five saved in rough seas Criccieth lifeboat was alerted on 16 August following a call to Holyhead Coastguard from a family caught in heavy weather aboard their yacht just south of Criccieth Castle.Coastguards paged Criccieth...
None (14)
Filey, Yorkshire. At 9.30 on the even- ing of the 19th August, 1961, the coast- guard requested the honorary secretary to launch the life-boat to illuminate the cliff base where four people had been cut off by the tide. At 10.3 the maroons...
Book Reviews
• A. F. Mumble's The Rowing Life- Boats of Whitby (Home and Son, Whitby, £1.63—including postage), has been produced with much scholarship and care. Mr Humble, who is acting librarian of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society...
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