LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Civil Joyce, Hellier, Blue Bird and Dorothy
The local fishing cobles Civil Joyce, Hellier, Blue Bird and Dorothy put to sea at 7 A.M. to haul lines which had been shot overnight.
The weather was fair. By 11 A.M. a north gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and...
A Gallant Salcombe Boy
THE Institution has awarded an in- scribed wrist-watch and a framed letter of thanks to twelve-year-old Michael Dornom, of Salcombe, Devon, who saved the life of a seaman in a south- westerly gale on the 17th of September, 1950. The seaman...
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Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Mrs.
Louisa Taylor, one of the launchers at Newbiggin, Northumberland. The Newbiggin women were awarded the Institution's thanks on vellum for helping to haul the life-boat up a cliff,...
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Lily
Whitby, Yorkshire.—The motor fishing coble Lily left harbour at 7 A.M. on the 19th April to haul crab pots. Later on the wind freshened considerably, and when the coble was seen making for home a strong N.W. breeze was blowing, with a...
Today's Lifeboatmen
Today's Exmouth lifeboat crew is very much a family affair - six members of two families make up nearly a quarter of the entire crew.
Among the 25 strong crew is Coxswain Keith Graham with his two sons and the three...
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Life-Saving By the Coastguard In 1938
IN 1938 the coastguard organization took action in 944 cases in which vessels or aircraft were either observed or reported to be in distress or to be overdue round the coasts of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This is three times as many...
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The Fishing Trawler Rosebud
Newcastle, Co. Down. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 1st of January1959, a passing motorist told the motor mechanic that a fishing trawler anchored off Mullartown Point was burning distress flares. At 3.40 the life-boat William and Laura...
Our Inland Branches. York
BEFORE the invasion of the Romans, York was one of the chief towns of the Brigantes, the most powerful of the British Tribes. By them it was known as Yure- Wic, and even at that time was a place of importance. The parent city is sup- posed...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
GRANGR, ISLE OF WIGHT.— The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION sent last August a new life-boat and transporting- carriage to this station, in the place of those previously there, which were becoming unserviceable. The new boat is 30 feet long,...
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The S.S. Excellent
PALLING and WINTESTOX, NOBFOLK.— At 9.25 A.M., on the 16th January, a telephone message was received at Pal- ling stating that a steamer was ashore on the Hasboro' Sands.
The No. 2 Life-boat Hearts of Oak was promptly...