LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A coastal living
Communities have naturally evolved on the coast due to their very proximity to the sea and the riches it brings. However, fluctuating demand, depleting natural resources and the discovery of new ones, have meant that coastal peoples have had...
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An Intrepid Rescue In Guernsey
and 17 stations with rocket apparatus only, so that Sweden has a fleet of 26 motor life-boats, and 2 pulling (one with an outboard motor).
Turkey There were no services to British vessels.
There are 4 life...
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A Motor Fishing Vessel
NOVEMBER 4TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A motor fishing vessel had been drifting, but was taken in tow by a tug. - Rewards, £9 6s..
Isallt
FIVE LIVES LOST Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 4.35 in the morning of the 5th of December, 1947, the Coast Life Saving Service reported a vessel in distress off Bally- money, Co. Wexford, about ten miles by sea from Arklow, and the motor life-boat...
St. Philomena
MOTOR BOAT BREAKS DOWN ON FISHING TRIP Bally cotton, Co. Cork. At 7.30 on the evening of the 16th September, 1962, the second coxswain told the honorary secretary that a visitor had reported that a boat was burning flares off Ballycotton....
Annual Meeting
THE ninety-second Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held in the Council Chamber at the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Wednesday, March 29th, 1916, at 3.30 P.M. The Eight Hon. the Earl of Plymouth, P.O.,...
Category: Meetings
Life-Boat Services In September, October and November. 73 Lives Rescued
During September, life-boats went out on service 60 times and rescued 40 lives.
A BOY IN A RUBBER DINGHY Cromer, Norfolk.—During the morning of the 2nd of September, 1948, the engines of the No. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg were...
Category: Services
'We were in trouble ...'
When car ferry Princess Victoria sank in heavy seas off Northern Ireland on 31 January 1953, Billy McAllister was working onboard
Massive waves were pushing and hitting, sending her [Princess...
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Foreign Medals
The Norwegian Government awarded silver life-saving medals to Mr. E.
SELBY DAVIDSON, honorary secretary at Tynemouth, COXSWAIN GEORGE LISLE, of Tynemouth, W. JOHNSON, the motor mechanic and BART TAYLOR,...
Category: Medals
The Merchant Shipping Act (Conclusion)
IN our further observations on the Merchant Shipping Act, we come to the consideration of those parts of it which have more immediately to do with the Preservation of Life from, or AFTER Shipwreck, or other casualty at sea. An object which,...
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