LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Four lifeboats evacuate hundreds from severe flooding Inshore lifeboats on the North Wales coast were once again called in to help with relief work when floods hit the Llandudno area on 10 and 11 June 1993.
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Four lifeboats evacuate hundreds from severe flooding Inshore lifeboats on the North Wales coast were once again called in to help with relief work when floods hit the Llandudno area on 10 and 11 June 1993.
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An Airbed
Airbed A BOY AND A GIRL being blown out to sea on an airbed off Ardrossan were reported to the honorary secretary of Troon lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1525 on Tuesday June 21. Five minutes later Troon's 44ft Waveney lifeboat...
Fleswick
Between 4 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon of 19th March the steamer Fleswick, of Liverpool, made signals of distress, having become disabled through her circulating pipe breaking. The Cadg- with Life-boat and...
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When it was learnt that a man had fallen over the cliffs at Sarclet Head on 2nd July, the Wick, Caithness, life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched at 10 p.m.
On reaching Sarclet Head the body of the man could be seen in...
Broughty Castle
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 6th February, while a gale of wind was blowing from the S.S.W. and a heavy sea was running, the schooner Broughty Castle, of Londonderry, coal laden, from Swansea for Douglas, was being towed into port by a small...
North Again...
In this issue he reaches the most westerly station in England and shapes a course back up the coast to the north..Since dropping anchor in Fowey and rushing back for the ILF conference and the 175th celebrations in Poole so much has happened...
Category: Articles
Argo Delos
On the 22nd of October, 1960, the Portrush life-boat rescued fourteen men from the Greek vessel Argo Delos. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 3, Coxswain Samuel Cunningham was awarded the silver medal for gallantry,...
Harwich and Dovercourt Station
Standing in Harwich's Atlantic 21 lifeboat are (I to r) Captain Richard Coolen, honorary secretary of Harwich and Dovercourt station branch, Eric Darvill, chairman of High Wycombe Round Table, with Geoff Rysdale, the immediate past... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Cobles
Early in the morn- ing of the 13th February twenty-two of the fishing-cobles put to sea in moderate weather. At about daybreak the wind backed into the E.S.E. and increased to a strong gale bringing up a very heavy sea. Ten of the cobles at...