LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Montauban
JANUARY 9TH. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE, AND HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM. At about 5 A.M. information was received through the Cullercoats Wireless Station that a vessel was in distress. The weather was calm and fine, but cold. The motor life-boat Louisa...
Portrait of a Coxswain
COXSWAIN ROBERT BUCHAN of the Humber is the superintendent coxswain of the only full-time life-boat crew in Britain or Ireland. He was appointed coxswain in 1959 having served for seven years as a member of the crew. During six of those...
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Ahto
On January 14th the Coastguard reported what appeared to them to be the sudden disappearance of a small yacht off the Skerries Bell Buoy. The time was then 5.35 P.M., and the Motor Life-boat George Shee put out.
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Boy's Own, Excelsior, Irene, Premier II & Victory
At 4 A.M. on the 15th November several fishing boats were at sea. The wind was blowing fresh from the S.E., the sea was making, and several of the boats were running for shelter. The life-boat crew stood by until, at seven o'clock, the...
Diana
YACHT TAKEN IN TOW TO HARBOUR Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 11.51 on the morning of the 28th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the auxiliary yacht Diana, of Shoreham, which had a crew of three, was burning red...
Viking
MOTOR CRUISER FOUND IN TOW OF SMACK Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.45 on the evening of the 9th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of reports that red flares had been seen in the direction of Buxey Sands, and at 10.5 the...
Barrus
Mariner doesn't just promise reliability.
It proves it! If you're considering buying an outboard, whatever the size, you'll have noticed that almost every manufacturer promises greater reliability as an...
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Contents
Contents Volume XLIX Number 491 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W. J. GRAHAM, CB MNI Editor: EDWARD WAKE-WALKER Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ...
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Lugano
— On the 26th April a vessel was observed on fire off Hastings, and the Life-boat Charles Arkoll was launched to render assistance if necessary. The vessel proved to be the steamer Lugano of Hamburg, home- ward bound from Baltimore with a...
Balder
During the night of the 23rd May, the same life-boat went off and saved from de- struction the Swedish barque Balder, which had struck on the north part of the Has- borough Sands. Upon the vessel stranding, some Palling beachmen, two fishing...