LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shenkin
YACHT REFLOATED ON RISING TIDE Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 5.35 on the evening of the 20th April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was aground on the Shingles bank at the entrance to the Solent. The...
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Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 6.15 on the evening of the 5th May, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen over the cliff at Maughold Head and later asked for the life-boat. At 6.35 the life-boat Frank and...
Mia Madre E. (1)
RAMSGATE AND DEAL.—On the 25th August, at about 3 A.M., signals were shown from the Gull Light-ship, and the Ramsgate Life-boat Bradford, in tow of the steam-tug Aid, and the Van Kook Life-boat, stationed at Deal, proceeded to the Goodwin...
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Lerwick, Shetland*.—At 10.10 on the morning of the 12th of April, 1951, the County Medical Officer of Health tele- phoned and asked that the life-boat take a doctor to Fair Isle to attend a man with appendicitis. At 10.50 the life-boat John...
A Motor Boat
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 11.49 on the night of the 7th of August, 1953, the police reported that eight people had left Groomsport in a motor boat at six o'clock and had been due back at 9.30. As they were still missing, the life-boat Sir...
Search and Rescue Seminar In the United States
A SEMINAR was held in New York from the I2th to i4th May, 1965, under the auspices of the United States Coast Guard to discuss the search and rescue organization in the North Atlantic basin. The delegates were not official government...
Category: Meetings
Punching waves
With skill, courage and brute strength, two RNLI lifeguards fought through heavy surf and high winds to reach surfers in peril
Days before the end of a busy lifeguard season, on the morning of...
Category: Articles
A Launch
Cadets and yachtsmen saved by Arun's Y-boat Force 5 onshore winds made life difficult for the crew of Troon's Arun City of Glasgow III when they had to launch their Y-boat twice during July to take survivors off a lee shore.
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
TROON, N.B.—This seaport town in Ayrshire having been suggested to the Institution as a desirable station for a Life- boat, and local co-operation having been afforded to the proposed undertaking, such a lx).it has accordingly been placed...
Category: Articles
A Rubber Dinghy from an Aeroplane
NOVEMBER 16TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
A rubber dinghy from a German aeroplane had been sighted, with at least three men on board, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £36 12st
NOVEMBER 17TH. - CLACTON...