LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Kentwood, of London
JULY 25TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. About 10.37 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Kentwood, of London, which was off Great Yarmouth, had signalled for a doctor to attend an injured man. At 11.22 the motor...
Tangled in Nets
On 3 March, 2 days into the scallop fishing season, a trawler crew member suffered serious head and neck injuries while trying to operate lifting gear.
New Quay’s Mersey class lifeboat crew were called out to prepare him...
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The Motor Fishing Coble Sheila
DECEMBER 6TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
During the afternoon the local motor fishing coble Sheila became overdue. A northwesterly breeze was blowing and the sea was calm, but it was thought advisable for the motor life-boat to...
Gallantry at Newhaven.
The Institution has awarded its silver medal to Coxswain Leonard Peddlesden, of Newhaven, Sussex, and its bronze medal to each of the seven members of his crew, for standing by one of H.M trawlers in a rough sea, and seeing her to a safe...
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In Her 89th Year
During the six years of the war Mrs. Lotinga Smith, now in her 8gth. year, who is so well known and beloved for her life-boat work in the Gedling and Carlton districts of Nottingham, personally collected over £2,000, and these districts...
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Next RNLI Chairman
Admiral The Lord Boyce will take over as Chairman of the RNLI from 5 November this year.
He joined the RNLI Council in 2004 and has served as Vice-Chairman since 2006. In his naval career he was First Sea Lord and Chief of...
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Pointer in a cliff plunge
4 February: Dart inshore lifeboat came to the aid of a German Shorthaired Pointer called Tom after he fell 25m onto a rocky ledge at the foot of cliffs. When the crew arrived, the dog tried to come to them but...
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Baptism by mire
SOUTHEND-ON-SEA | 3 NOVEMBER
Southend’s search and rescue hovercraft crew launched to reports of five people in the water struggling to get ashore. The volunteers quickly located three of them –...
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Ann Mitchell
On the 30th January, 1860, the ship Ann Mitchell ran ashore on the Arklow bank. The Arklow life-boat proceeded to her, and found the Bristol steamer Suly lying near her, but unable to approach sufficiently near to take off her crew, the sea...
Beatrix, of Whitby
The life-boat Letitia was launched about midnight on the j 12th February, 1869, in reply to signals of distress from the brig Beatrix, of Whitby, which was riding heavily in the Roads near Gorton Gapway, with her mainmast cut; away, during a...