LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Injured climber A MAN, APPARENTLY SERIOUSLY INJURED and lying at the foot of the cliff at Jackets Point, three miles north east of Port Isaac ILB station, was reported to the honorary secretary by HM Coastguard at 1332 on Wednesday, May...
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Tuesday, the 14th day of March, 1871, His Grace the DUKE of NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., President of the Institution, in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
Out In A Flash
RescUe OUT In A FLASH When three children were suddenly torn out of their depth by a rip current at a Devon beach, they were in danger of being thrown onto rocks – or worse Rip currents are the main surf hazard for beach goers – they can...
Category: Articles
Sunbeam
On the 24th October the dandy Sunbeam, of Lowestoft, bound on a fishing voyage, grounded on the South Scroby Sand, in a moderate S. by W. gale, and a very heavy sea. A steam-tug was in the vicinity at the time, but finding herself unable to...
A Coxswain's First Service
ON the morning of 10th October, 1935, the barge British Oak, of Roches- ter, was running for Ramsgate. She was bound from Goole to Hayling Island, with a crew of two men and a cargo of coal, and had been wind-bound off Deal for several days....
Category: Services
Lionesse
Selsey, Sussex. At 5.27 on the morn- ing of the 3rd of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a yacht had fired three flares two hundred yards south of the Owers lightvessel. The life-boat Canadian Pacific was...
New Life-Boat Transporting Carriage
WORK has been in progress for some years to produce a new carriage for transporting life-boats down to the sea at stations where there is no suitable harbour and no means of launching a life-boat down a slipway. For some time the need has...
Category: Articles
Vernicos Giorgos
Tugs aground ST ANNE'S COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of St David's lifeboat station at 2020 on Sunday October 18, 1981, that the tug Vernicos Giorgos, with two other tugs in tow, had a rope round her propeller and was...
La Colina and Steamer Mergus
Penlee, Cornwall. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 25th June, 1961, the honorary secretary received a message that the life-boat would be needed to meet the motor vessel La Colina of London off the Wolf Rock lighthouse and take...
Susan Vittery
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 6th of April, 1953, the radio operator of the Tuskar Rock lighthouse on shore received a wireless message from the lighthouse that a ship's boat had been seen near the rock....