LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Swimmer saved by lifeboat crew A short but dramatic rescue in which three members of Hastings lifeboat station (one of them the coxswain of the station's Mersey class lifeboat) went into the water to save a young man in danger of being...
Ina
Tyn_e tows coaster and crew to safety in worsening weather When the 210ft coaster Ina lost power off the Devon coast on 4 November 1997 she soon found herself aground by the stern on the Mewstone, just off Bolt Head. With a south-easterly...
The Life-Boat Station
THB following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 293 Life-boat Stations...
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Lizzie
HARTLEPOOL.—On the evening of the 15th February, during an E.N.E. wind, a high sea, and heavy rain, the ketch Lizzie, of and from Yarmouth for Sunderland •with a cargo of flour and iron, in making for Hartlepool for shelter, struck on the...
Atbara
CROMER AND PALLING, NORFOLK.—At about 4.30 P.M. on the llth February the Cromer Life-boat, Louisa Hearticell, and the Palling No. 2 Life-boat, Hearts of Oak, went off to the Haisbro' Sands in response to a message from the light vessel...
A Boat
CREW MEMBER LOST AFTER BOAT CAPSIZES Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 9.11 on the evening of the 7th April, 1963, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary of a message received from Reenard Point stating that a small boat with ten people on...
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BABY BORN IN LIFE-BOAT HOUSE Galway Bay, Co. Galway. At eleven o'clock on Saturday the 3rd of August, 1963, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat could be used to take an expectant mother to the Galway Regional...
The Fleetwood Sea Cadet Harbour Launch
OUT ALL DAY Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 11.40 a.m. on i8th June, 1965, the coastguard reported that the Royal Navy frigate H.M.S. Blackpool, which was anchored off Blackpool, had the Fleetwood sea cadet harbour launch alongside, badly damaged....
Fiola
Dunbar, East Lothian - At 9.47 a.m.
on 3rd April, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain of the life-boat that the cabin cruiser Fiola of Glasgow, with a crew of three, was aground on Belhaven Sands. The owner of the...
The Ramsey Island Boat
St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 4th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fire had been observed on Ramsey Island. The honorary secre- tary took no immediate action because in the...