LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Pleasure Boat
About 12.30 P.M. on the 21st July a pleasure boat containing two men was observed being carried down the river by the ebb tide, and as it appeared probable that she would run on to the Annat Bank the Life-boatmen assembled and pro- ceeded...
The John and Edmund
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About 10 P.M. on the 7th December the coxswain of the No. 3 Life-boat observed a signal light being burned from a vessel in the bay, apparently making for West Hartlepool. The ship suddenly altered her course, and ran...
The 24ft Cabin Cruiser Tomey Too
Overdue HAYLING ISLAND POLICE received a telephone call from a lady in Berkshire at 0330 on Tuesday January 3 to say that her husband and son had not returned from a fishing trip. They had set out from Northney Marina at 1030 and had been...
I. E. Chase
On 30th January at 9 A.M., in consequence of a signal from the Hock Lighthouse, at the entrance of the Mersey, that a ship was in distress at the back the banks on "Square 43," the Lifeboat Willie and Arthur proceeded down the...
The Fourth International Life-Boat Conference
By Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., Secretary of the Institution.
SINCE the Royal National Life-boat Institution, in its Centenary year of 1924, organized the first International Life-boat Conference ever held, it...
Category: Meetings
Bessey III
LIFE-BOAT COXSWAIN DIES AFTER HIS FISHING BOAT SINKS Coverack, Cornwall. On Tuesday the 30th of July, 1963, a telephone message was received by the second coxswain from the mechanic that the fishing vessel Bessey III, of Coverack, owned by...
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Flamborough, Yorkshire. — On the afternoon of the 14th August the coxswain was told that some people were in danger of drowning in Thornwick Bay. about two miles north of Flamborough Head. The wind was only light, from the north, but a very...
A Fire at a Building Yard. Three Life-Boats Destroyed
ON 18th June a fire at the building yard of Messrs. Groves and Guttridge, Cowes, destroyed three motor life-boats and a quantity of the Institution's timber. The life-boats were those from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, and Selsey, Sussex,...
Category: Articles
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INJURED BOY BROUGHT BY SKIFF TO LIFE-BOAT Wicklow. At 6.58 on the evening of the 10th June, 1962, a member of the Garda told the coxswain that a boy had fallen fifty feet down a cliff three miles south of Wicklow. The life-boat /. W. Archer...
Katina T.H.
HELP FOR CARPENTER Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 11.15 a.m. on 2Oth January, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a carpenter in a Greek motor vessel had severely injured his leg and needed medical treatment. The crew...