LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

COXSWAIN/MECHANIC Eric T. Offer, of Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, has been awarded the bronze medal of the Institution for a shore boat service in which he rescued two men who got into difficulties at night in the harbour.

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On the 26th November the Life-boat Reigate put off from this station and saved 8 persons which vessel had been driven into the ...

The Life-boat and steam-tug also proceeded out at 6.15 A.M. on the 13th November to the aid of the barque Mina, of Kalmar, Sweden, bound from Shields to St. Vincent with coal, which had gone ashore on the Brake Sand during a fresh E.S.E....

Overland 1983: The 1st Lyn (Exmoor) Scouts, with a third size replica of the pulling lifeboat, Louisa, built by themselves, re-enact the epic journey of the Lynmouth lifeboatmen in January 1899 when they took Louisa up Countisbury Hill,... - View image in PDF

— The fish- ing boats were out on the 7th July, and by noon bad weather had set in. A moderate E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The coxswain was told by fishermen coming ashore that the local coble Quest was still at sea and in a...

On the morning of the 22nd of January the sea was heavy and still rising, and several of the local fishing cobles were at sea. By 11.59 A.M. a moderate S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and the pulling and sailing life-boat...

Filey, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 2nd January, 1938, the local fishing cobles were caught at sea by bad weather. Some quickly came in, but others were several miles off, and the pulling and sailing life-boat Thomas Masterman Hardy...

As in the past four years, the Institu- tion has again supplied free to all yacht clubs which wished to have it a copy of the chart of life-boat stations round the British Isles which appears in the annual report. This chart, besides ...