LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Swanage, Dorset. At 6.10 on the evening of the 18th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police had reported a man in difficulties on the cliffs at Ballard Down. A cliff rescue team had been sent to the...
Sari Marts
TOW FOR BOAT WITH ANGLERS ABOARD Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At' 3.20 on the afternoon of the 23rd July, 1962, the master of the mail steamer St.
Andrew informed the coxswain that the fishing boat Sari Marts had...
H.M. Destroyer Erne
APRIL 30TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 10.22 P.M. a message was received from the Fraserburgh coastguard that H.M. Destroyer Erne had been bombed when ten and a half miles from Kinnaird Head, and at 11 P.M. the motor...
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Nicholas
Over mud WHILE PAYING a routine visit to Spurn Coastguard lookout on Saturday December 6, 1980, Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan of Humber lifeboat station was told, at 1912, that Hull Radio had reported two red flares sighted in the Foul...
John, of Hartlepool
The Thomas Wilson life-boat also went out three times to the brig John, of Hartlepool, which had gone ashore at Cape Kerr Point; and on the last occasion was tile means of rescuing the master, who had remained on board helpless after his...
Mary Ann
St. Mary's, Scilly Isles. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 4th of October, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties seven miles east of St. Agnes lighthouse. At 10.42 the...
Wear Star
Sunderland, Co. Durham - At 11.56 a.m. on 10th March, 1968, it was learnt that the coble Wear Star was in difficulties south east of the South Outlet. The life-boat William Myers and Sarah Jane Myers was launched at 12.15 in a strong...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Boyle, of Arranmore, on the west coast of Ireland. He has been cox- swain since October, 1928, and is one of the seven coxswains who won the gold medal for conspicuous gallantry during the war of...
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Just one inch of water
Drowning is a silent epidemic that claims an estimated 360,000 lives
every year, many of them children. This summer, we brought this to the attention of world leaders, with a photographic exhibition at the UN Headquarters in New...
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Bereby
SEPTEMBER 24TH. - NEWCASTLE, CO.
DOWN. At 3 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that a ship was ashore at Ringfad Point, Killough, and the motor life-boat L. P. and St. Helen was launched at 3.20 A.M. A S.E.wind was blowing,...