LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Silver Medal for Padstow
The Institution has awarded its silver medal to W. Orchard, its second motor mechanic at Padstow, for taking command of the life-boat when she travelled 28 miles in a rough sea and blinding squalls of rain, and rescued seven lives from a...
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Descendants of William Wouldhave In Australia
LAST year the Institution lent photographs of portraits of Sir William ! I Hillary and Henry Greathead, and of a j i bust of William Wouldhave, to illustrate ; an article called " The Red Cross of the I Sea : the Romance of the...
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Brionie
APRIL 22ND. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. During the evening the yacht Brionieran aground two miles W.S.W. of Selsey Bill, while on passage from Lymington to Newhaven with a crew of three. A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderately rough sea.
Cubenda
FEBRUARY 2 8TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. At 10.56 in the morning the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Cubenda, of London, with a crew of twelve, had struck a mine about two and a half miles east of Mumbles Head, and the motor...
An Aeroplane (34)
Nov. 20TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but when the life-boat reached her she found that the only man on board had swum ashore. The aeroplane was taken in tow by an R.A.F. launch. - Rewards, £5 5s....
Aeroplanes (1)
AUGUST 13TH. - SELSEY SUSSEX.
During an air battle a British aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the airman was saved by a destroyer. Several enemy aeroplanes had also crashed, and the search was continued, but the...
Fishing Boats (2)
On the 21st February a heavy sea sprung up while fishing-boats were out, and timely assistance was rendered to them by the Life-boats Ephraim and Hannah Fox, stationed at Robin Hood's Bay; the Co-operator No. 1, of Cullercoats; and the...
Ocea (2)
Steering failure LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of New Brighton lifeboat station at 1400 on Sunday August 29, 1982, that the yacht Ocea was acting in an erratic manner and appeared to be in difficulties just north of...
Feature: Volunteer Lifeguards
RNLI Beach Lifeguards currently operates only in the South West of England, but the RNLI is working hard to ensure the development of lifeguarding all around the coastThe RNLI is committed to maintaining its volunteer ethos. This does not...
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None (2)
Injured girl RAMSEY COASTGUARD asked Peel lifeboat station honorary secretary at 1520 on Monday August 25, 1980, if the lifeboat would launch immediately to go to the help of a girl who had fallen off the cliffs between Niarbyl and White...