LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M. Trawler British
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT YARMOUTH Nov. 14TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 8.40 in the evening a message was received at the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, station that a vessel was ashore off the Brighstone look-out.
A fresh...
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...
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A Boat
Search through surf BLYTH LIFEBOAT, the 46' 9" Watson Winston Churchill (Civil Service No. 8) had launched on exercise on Monday, August 8, and was heading for the harbour mouth when, at 1007, a call was received from HM Coastguard...
The Deep-Sea Trawler Boston Jaguar
Explosion at sea AN EXPLOSION, on the night of November 15, 1973, aboard the 300-ton deep-sea trawler Boston Jaguar, 37 miles 020° (T) from Cromer, Norfolk, left the ship without steering gear, with her mate killed and a crew member...
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The RNLI and me: Alexander McCall Smith
When bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith isn’t penning adventures set in Scotland and Botswana, he plots his own dramatic course on the water …
You published five books in 2015 alone – how do you manage to be so...
Category: Articles
The silent epidemic
WORLDWIDE, AN ESTIMATED 372,000 PEOPLE DROWN EVERY YEAR
In too many countries, drowning is the leading killer of children. It affects the poorest in our world first and worst: people caught in the rhythms of everyday life...
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Advice to Yachtsmen
[The following notes on rescues by helicopter have been issued by the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation for the guidance of yachtsmen.] AT present three types of helicopter are used for sea rescue work around the coasts of the United...
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The Third International Life-Boat Conference
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 109 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 71 - 62,965 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 29th, 1932 The Third International Life-boat...
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Jeanne Gougy
TWELVE MEN LOST FROM FRENCH TRAWLER Sennen Cove, and Penlee, Cornwall.
At 5.21 on the morning of the 3rd November, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain of the Sennen Cove life-boat that a vessel was ashore on the...