LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht (1)
AUGUST 11TH. - FOWEY, CORNWALL.
At 12.58 in the morning, the police reported that a yacht which had put out at one o’clock on the previous afternoon, had not returned.
She had five on board. A...
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Otnxrtc.—Bust at His Majesty KING EDWARD VII. Double Legend : " Royal National Life-boat Institution.
Founded In 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII...
Category: Medals
Minni
Teesmouth, Yorkshire - At about 5.36 p.m. on 28th May, 1966, the coastguard sighted a small fishing boat being blown out to sea with three people on board. Her engine had failed and she had neither oars nor anchor. In the absence of the...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
NORTH DEAL.—A new life-boat station has been established by the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, at the north end of the town of Deal on the Kentish coast, as it was thought that a life-boat placed there might be useful on occasions of wrecks...
Category: Articles
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‘ THEY WERE UTTERLY FROZEN’
When three people found themselves clinging to the bow of a sinking sailboat in the Dee Estuary, their hopes lay in the skill of a lifeboat crew – and no small amount of luck
On 22 February...
Category: Articles
Coxswain Henry G. Blogg, of Cromer
BY winning a second-service clasp to his silver medal for the rescue of the two men from the barge Sepoy, as described on page 197, Coxswain Henry G. Blogg has equalled a record which has stood in the history of the Institution for...
Category: Articles
A Yacht (1)
Scottish crews out in numbers Ravaged by remnants of the hurricane season, the British Isles were soaked and windswept in late summer 2004. At the end of one of the wettest Augusts on record, the rough sea conditions off the northern tip of...
A Motor Vessel
FEBRUARY 9TH. - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON.
A motor vessel had signalled that her engine had failed, but she repaired it and was able to go on her way. - Rewards, £23 8s..
Kathleen Ann
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 22nd of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a longshore boat, Kath- leen Ann, had anchored about fifty v^.rds from the shore opposite the coastguard look-out....