LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1858
Is accordance with our custom for some years past, we present some facts connected with the Wreck Register and Chart, prepared annually by the Board of Trade for presentation to Parliament.
It is, as usual, a...
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Suited and booted
Many of London’s City workers unwind after a hard day with a trip to the gym or a drink in a bar. But sometimes when he leaves his office in Fenchurch Street David Taylor walks to a floating pier on the River Thames, pulls on a drysuit, and...
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Notes of the Quarter
RESCUE craft of the R.N.L.I. were launched on service more often in 1964 than in any other year since the Institution was founded in 1824. The number of launches by life-boats was 929 and by inshore rescue boats 238. Lives saved by...
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Andaman and Fortune
Dover, and Walmer, Kent.—At 2.55 early on the morning of the 24th of May, 1953, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that the motor vessel Andaman.
of Gothenburg, had collided with the Panamanian steamer Fortune three...
Greyhound, of Liverpool
JULY 19TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.
At six in the morning information was received from the Dock Board that a fishing boat was ashore on the revetment opposite Gamma Buoy, with spray going over her. A fresh westerly breeze...
Two Pleasure Boats
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—Considerable anxiety was felt here on the 16th August, as to the safety of two pleasure boats with five visitors on board which had set out for Peel. At 9.45 P.M. the wind blew a gale from the S.S.W., the sea was rough,...
A Small Boat (3)
Early on the morning of the 23rd March three boys put out from the harbour in a small boat and headed up the Bristol Channel.
When about half a mile out they tried to put about and return but were unable to do so, as a...
Hayle
On the 15th March the steamer Hayle, of Penzance, while making the harbour on the morning's tide, stranded on the eastern side of the bar. A strong W.N.W.
wind was blowing at the time, and when it was seen that all...
A Sea Plane
Shortly after 9.30 A.M. on 17th February, the Coastguard telephoned that a sea- plane had made a forced descent at sea, about a mile east of Foreland Lookout.
Signals for help were also seen. The Motor Life-boat Langham was...
Donald Searle (1)
Seventeen saved from 75ft yacht aground in gale and 20ft breakersTwo Hayling Island lifeboatmen, Roderick James and Frank Dunster, have been awarded the RNLI's Silver Medal for their part in the rescue of 17 people from a 75ft yacht...