LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Thomas L. Devlin
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 5.52 on the evening of the 8th of December, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the steam trawler Thomas L. Devlin, of Granton, had gone ashore at North Carr. At 6.10 the life-boat James and Ruby Jackson was...
Spurn Head (From page 95)
a wooden half-lifeboat plaque made from the wreckage of the Peterhead lifeboat Alexander Tulloch which was wrecked in 1914 (THE LIFEBOAT, Summer, 1973), is a well-known maker of matchstick models. For example, using 1,500 used matchsticks,...
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Two Fishing Boats
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 9 a.m. on 3oth March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two small fishing boats which had put out in fine weather had got into difficulties when the weather suddenly became worse. The life-boat...
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Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 1.50 on the afternoon of the 9th of September, 1960, the coastguard asked the honorary secretary for the use of the life-boat to take a doctor to a sick woman on Bardsey Island. The life- boat...
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part 1
KNOWLEDGE OF SHIPS AND THE SEA, of design and engineering brought to bear, with imagination, on the problems posed in the reconciling of requirements with limitations; calculations; drawings —of profile, section and plan—building up on flat...
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Stranded swimmer R LIFEBOAT CREW were paged at 1428 on Saturday, August 8. 1987, following a report of a man having been cut off by the tide below Hunt Cliff, Saltburn.
The station's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable...
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Two lifeboats rescue family and dogs from cliffface in heavy surf Both of Newquay's inshore lifeboats were involved in rescuing two adults, a baby and two dogs from a cliff after they had been cut off by the tide at Bedruthan steps on 30...
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Fowey, Cornwall. At 10.13 P-m- °n I5th August, 1965, news came that a man and a boy were cut off by the tide on the west side of Lansallos beach. The lifesaving apparatus team were on their way and the assistance of the life-boat was...
An Aeroplane
Barmouth, Merionethshire. •—• About half-past ten in the morning of the 29th.
of July, 1949, information was received from the R.A.F. at Valley, Anglesey, and from the Fishguard coastguard that an aeroplane had come down in...
Dijon and Peebles
January storm BRONZE MEDALS AT 1137 ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1988 the Blackpool station honorary secretary, Mr Rowland Darbyshire was alerted by Liverpool Coastguard MRSC that a small vessel had fired red flares 11/4 miles north north west...