LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Norman
Save Our Pot Plants Margate's Mersey class lifeboat Leonard Kent was called to another sinking incident in the South East Division, this time on Boxing Day 1992.
The elderly 35ft motor cruiser Norman, with three people...
ElectroMotion
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Scottish Co-operator
FEBRUARY 7TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.
Shortly after 9 in the evening information was received through the coastguard that a vessel had struck a mine off Workington, and the motor life-boat Joseph Braithwaite was launched at...
Lydia Eva
JANUARY 19TH. - PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
The steam trawler Lydia Eva, which was acting as a tender to the R.A.F., was seen to be dragging her anchors towards a lee shore An ensign knotted in the tail was seen hoisted,...
Home of hulls
SAR Composites Ltd, an RNLI subsidiary company, has acquired the lifeboat hull construction facility previously owned by Green Marine Ltd. Contracts were signed in January, securing the long-term future of all-weather lifeboat hull...
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Lindy, of Kopervik, Norway
OCTOBER 5TH. - GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.
At 3.55 in the afternoon the coastguard reported a vessel on the rocks half a mile east of the harbour. The weather was fine with a smooth sea, but there was...
The Motor Cabin Cruiser Kinuna, of Southampton
JANUARY 18TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 7.5 at night the Lade coastguard reported a small vessel ashore east-by-north of Lade, but not in need of help. A strong southeasterly wind was blowing, with a very choppy sea. The...
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APRIL 5TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
At 2.40 in the afternoon a message was received from Shoebury garrison that seven men, engaged on demolition work, were stranded on the boom defence a mile-and-ahalf out to sea and...
Remembering those lost
This year marks the centenary of the Fethard lifeboat disaster, when nine volunteers from the Co Wexford station died during a brave rescue attempt in unforgiving seas.
On 20 February 1914, 14 Fethard crew members launched...
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JANUARY 4TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS.
On the 2nd January, Dr. Cruickshank, of Walls, telephoned that the Queen’s District Nurse on Foula Island was dangerously ill and would have to be taken to the...