LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Feeling thirsty? Keep an eye out for Coastal Spring Cornish spring water, which is sold in support of the RNLI.
For every plastic bottle of Coastal Spring sold in shops, and elegant glass bottles sold in bars and...
Category: Articles
Sea Serpent
About 5 A.M., on the 24th November, the barque Sea Serpent, of South Shields, was observed ashore op- posite the Wellington Pier, the wind blow- ing a gale from the E. at the time. The Yarmouth small surf life-boat was im- mediately launched...
Sceptre
JANUARY 6TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 5.15 P.M. information was received from an escort vessel, through the coastguard, that a fishing boat was in distress seven miles to the N.E. It was very cold, with a moderate wind and sea. At 5.45 P...
Fishing Boats (1)
NOVEMBER 24TH. - FILEY, YORK-SHIRE. The motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 12.35 in the afternoon in a strong north-north-west wind, with a rough sea, to the help of the local fishing boats. As most of the regular members of the crew...
Other Life-Boat Launches
OTHER LIFE-BOAT LAUNCHES In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 195 and 198 the following launches on service were made during the months December, 1969, January and...
Category: Services
On Passage With the R.N.L.I.
The passages of two new life-boats to their stations are described here by men who were aboard. The first account, reproduced by courtesy of the Eastern Daily Press in which it appeared on 28th October, 1964, is written by Dr. P. S. Barclay,...
Category: Articles
Ceres, of Lyme
On the night of the 18th August, intelligence was received at Lynie Regis that a vessel was in distress, being anchored off a lee-shore in a heavy gale, 15 miles to the eastward of Lyme. At 4 A.M.
on the 19th, the...
Frank Shaw, of North Shields
On the 20th Oct., 1869, the ship Frank Shaw, of North Shields, was totally wrecked, during a very heavy gale of wind, on the Goodwin Sands. She had sought shelter in the Downs, but was compelled .to slip her cable and try fresh anchorage off...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck. Appeal
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
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OTHER LIFE-BOAT LAUNCHES
In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 114, 126, 132, the following launches on service were made during the months September, October and November, 1969, inclusive:...
Category: Services