LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mermaid
At 8 A.M. on the 13th December a large barque, which proved to be the Mermaid, of Cardiff, bound from Quebec to Liverpool with a cargo of timber—was seen at anchor just clear of the banks lying at the mouth of the Eibble, and displaying...
Christmas Cards and Calendars
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a reproducti on in colour of the picture on this page.
It is a photograph of the 41-feet Newhaven life-boat Cecil and Lillian...
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A Canoe
FOUND EMPTY CANOE At 2.4 a.m. on 2oth November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a i y-year-old boy was missing in the Firth of Forth, and that he was last seen in his canoe the previous morning.
The...
London Life-Boat Day and Lifeboat Matinee
LAST year Life-boat Day in Greater London felt on the first day of the General Strike. Over £2,700 was collected, a large sum in such exceptionally difficult circumstances, but not half what it Lad been toped to raise. This year a...
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Bose
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Stora Korsnas Link I
18 saved from burning vessel on lee shore Whitby's Tyne class lifeboat City of Sheffield launched to the aid of large Swedish motor vessel Stora Korsnas Link I on fire with 18 aboard in a northerly Gale on 5 November...
Norden Havet
On the 1st of May last the barque Norden Havet, of Porsgrund, Norway, was towed ashore at Southwold in a sinking state, having grounded on the Leman and Ower Sands. Part of the crew were landed, but the master and two mates remained on board...
Berend N.
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 7th of January, 1954, the Needles coastguard tele- phoned that the motor vessel Berend N., of Delfzijl, had sent a distress message five miles south-east of the Needles. At 1.54 the...
Gypsy Rover
Leapt to the rescue THE STORMS WHICH SWEPT ACROSS THE English Channel on August Bank Holiday Monday, 1986, continued unabated the next day and it was towards the end of the afternoon on Tuesday, August 26 that a yacht in Alderney Harbour...
Sea Jack
Appledore, North Devon. At 11.30 a.m. on i8th November, 1964, the honorary secretary was told that the auxiliary yacht Sea Jack, which had a crew of three, had lost all her canvas and had engine trouble. She was being towed by another yacht...