LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Small Motor Boats and a Convoy
JANUARY 25TH. - TORBAY, DEVONSHIRE.
Shortly after two in the afternoon the resident naval officer reported that owing to the north-north-west gale, which was blowing, small motor boats were unable to maintain communication...
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JUNE 6TH. - TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 5.32 P.M. the South Shields coastguard reported that three boys were marooned on rocks. The tide was half flood, and the weather fine, with a slight sea.
A motor...
Re-Opening of Shoreham Station
THE Station at Shoreham, Sussex, which was established in 1865, was closed in 1924, owing to the silting up of the harbour. Up to that date its Life-boats had rescued forty lives.
Since 1924 there has been a great im-...
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Maritime Books (Readers Union Ltd)
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An Admiralty Tug
THREE LIFE-BOATMEN OVERBOARD NOVEMBER 9TH - 10TH. - MONTROSE, AND BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. Shortly after six in the evening an Admiralty tug was bombed from the air. The Montrose coxswain saw the bombs dropping. Thinking that the life-boat...
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Newhaven, Sussex. At 2.11 on the afternoon of the 7th of September, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat had capsized off Buckmere River and that one of her crew had swum ashore and the second was in the water....
The S.S. Empire Facility, of London
JANUARY 21ST. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
At 6.30 in the morning the coastguard reported that a vessel half a mile to the north-west had fired a rocket and hoisted a signal, and the motor life-boat Louisa Polden was launched at 7...
In deep water
Few people living inland would expect to rely on the RNLI to keep safe in their own communities but this was the reality for many driven from their homes by fl ooding in September 2008. The town of Morpeth, Northumberland, was worst hit when...
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Neilly
PENZANCE.—Soon after daylight on the 5th September it was reported that a vessel was at anchor in the bay with a signal of distress flying. A strong gale was blowing from S.E. to S.S.E. The Life-boat Eichard Lewis proceeded to her assistance...