LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fishery Cruiser Norna
LONG STAND-BY At 7.20 a.m. on 25th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishery cruiser Norna was being blown ashore at Loch Shell but did not require immediate help. There was a rough sea with a strong...
Tributes from the Services.
After only six months of war the Admiralty sent a special letter of thanks to the Institution for the "exemplary spirit ot courage and endurance, in which, without fear or thought of self, the life-boatmen have never spared their...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PALLING, NORFOLK.—About 1 A.M.
on the 9th March the schooner Vixen of Fowey was wrecked on the beach about two and a half miles to the north of Palling. She was laden with burnt ore and was bound from London to the Tyne....
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The Fishwives of Cullercoats
THE fishwives of Cullercoats, North- umberland, carried out their twelfth annual collection on behalf of the Institution, on 5th August, when the Cullercoats life-boat had its quarterly road exercise and launch. The col- lection was again a...
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The Sailing Trawler Evala
On the night of the 9th January the coastguard telephoned that a vessel about 2 J miles north of Southwold harbour was burn- ing red flares, and the motor life-boat Mary Scott was launched at 9.30 P.M.
A moderate, and...
The Swiss Steamer Lugano
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.
—At seven o'clock on the evening of the 16th of November, 1952, the coast- guard telephoned that a vessel east-by- north of the pier had signalled for a doctor as her master felt ill....
The Ramsgate Station
As a result of negotiations which have been going on between the Board of Trade and the Institution since July, 1920, the Institution has now taken over full financial responsibility for the Ramsgate Station, and, as from 31st March last,...
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