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Lifeboat revisited I read with interest the news article 'Reunited in New Zealand' featured in the Winter 1995/96 issue of THE LIFEBOAT.
The reference to Greymouth caught my eye. This was where my daughter Julie...
Category: Correspondence
Arbroath Memorial
A BRONZE plaque has been erected in the storm wall of the fish quay at Arbroath harbour to commemorate the disaster in which six members of the crew of the Arbroath life-boat Robert Lindsay lost their lives on the 27th of October,...
Category: Articles
Bullfrog
The following account of a service by the Lizard, Cornwall, life-boat on the 30th June, 1961, was received too late for inclusion in the September number of the Life-boat: At 11.23 in the morning the coast- guard informed the honorary...
Calypso V
YACHT AND FOUR TOWED TO SAFETY Weymouth, Dorset. At 7.17 on the evening of Wednesday the 18th September, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning red flares a mile off Portland Bill. The life-boat Frank...
Jorjika
At 6.37 p.m. on 26th July, 1967, it was learnt that a yacht was in difficulties off Holland-on-Sea beach. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched at 7 o'clock in a gentle south westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The IRB was also...
Aldeburgh- East Division
Aldeburgh's lifeboats are housed separately on the beach along the parallell Crag Path.
The 'A-frame' building to the right of picture below is the new 'Penza' boathouse which houses the Mersey class... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Admiralty Drifter and Rosa (2)
DEC. 13TH. - BLYTH, AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. An Admiralty drifter had been blown up by enemy action, but Blyth life-boat could find no survivors.
She was then directed to a position where...
A Motor Launch (1)
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.—At 5.58 on the evening of the 14th of July, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a motor launch needed help between Sully Island and Lavernock Point. At 6.50 the life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was launched in a...
Devonbrook
SICK MAN TAKEN OFF MOTOR VESSEL Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 12.45 early on the morning of the 2nd January, 1962, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that he had received a message from the motor vessel Devonbrook of London, which was...
Golden Sceptre
On the night of the 15th January, the steam trawler Golden Sceptre, bound for Hull for repairs, grounded on Kettleness Point at 9.20 P.M. Her distress signals were seen, and the Life-boat Hester Rothschild was despatched to her assistance....