LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Coverack, Cornwall - At 3.30 p.m.
on loth August, 1967, the honorary medical adviser told the honorary secretary that his services were required at the scene of an accident on Landkidden beach. The life-boat William Taylor...
Ramsgate Crew Honoured
THE thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to Coxswain Thomas Cooper, of the Ramsgate life-boat, for saving a yacht and four people at the entrance to Ramsgate harbour. Vellum service certificates have also been...
Category: Services
Nautical star
TV presenter, writer and adventurer Ben Fogle immersed himself in the RNLI’s past and present during his latest on-screen project …
It’s a crisp, cold January morning off the south Devon coast,...
Category: Articles
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Lifeboatmen save people and livestock from flooded towns In the early hours of 18 October 1990 the towns of Ballycastle and nearby Cushendall in Co. Antrim were badly flooded, and Red Bay lifeboat station and two of the Crew Members at...
Crusier, of Hartlepool
On the 3rd December, in a fresh gale and heavy swell, with falls of snow and sleet, a brig was observed, apparently near the Goodwin Sands, with a signal of distress in the main rigging, and soon afterwards she was seen to cut away both...
A Life-Boat Cafe.
In May the Harrogate'Ladies" Life-boat Guild ran a life-boat cafe for a week.
An empty shop was got for nothing. A decorator decorated it free of cost. The electric and gas companies lent cookers. The corporation...
Category: Articles
Moby Dick
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 6.55 on the morning of the 2nd of May, 1955, the Walney Island coastguard rang up to say that he had received a message by radio telephone from the Barrow pilot boat. The pilot boat had found the 24-feet sailing yacht...
Sea Hawkinge
Appledore, Devon - At 2.40 p.m. on 31st August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Sea Hawk was aground off Down End and that one of the crew had been taken off by a lifeguard in a rubber boat. The...
Depaky II
Ramsgate, Kent - At 5.33 p.m. on I2th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht half a mile east of the North Goodwin buoy was firing flares. The Swedish ship Buenas Aires was standing by until the life-boat arrived....
Bookshelf
Britain's Historic Coast By Alison Gale Published by Tempus Publishing Ltd ISBN: 0-7524-1456-9 Price: £19.99 . _ _ H Alison Gale takes a trip through time that explains how human activity has both exploited and left its mark upon...
Category: Articles