LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ewing McGruer
O.N. 70-002 at Kirkwall - At 10.37 a.m. on 23rd September, 1968, the coastguard told the staff coxswain that a lobster boat had broken down half a mile north east of Gault buoy.
The 1RB carried aboard the life-boat Grace...
Hitena
The brigantine Hitena, was observed with signals of distress flying and drifting towards the rocks off Brixham, during a heavy gale of wind on the 19th March. The City of Exeter life- boat was quickly manned and launched, pulled with a will...
A Rubber Dinghy
Dungeness, Kent.—At 2.57 on the afternoon of the 19th of July, 1952, the Lade coastguard telephoned that a rubber dinghy with two people on board was in distress off Lydd. The sea was rough, with a strong wind blowing. The life-boat Charles...
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Fishing Cobles
Con- siderable excitement was caused on the morning of the 16th March in the village of Newbiggin owing to fifteen of the cobles belonging to the port having been overtaken by bad weather when at sea. The boats went off fishing at about 5...
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Stuck between high cliffs and high seasFowey Lifeboats launched no fewer than 73 times last year - but few shouts were as dramatic as the one that led to the rescue of a family stranded on a nearby beach, fearing for their lives A camping...
Sunshine
PETERHEAD, N.B.—On the 11th April, signals of distress were observed in the direction, of Seotstonhead, -whereupon the People's Journal No. 1 Life-boat proceeded out, and found the schooner Sunshine, of Wick, stranded on the...
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Boys on a Perch ON HEARING from the Coastguard that two boys were cut off by the tide and were clinging to the perch marking the sewer outfall between Rhyl and Prestatyn (Flintshire), the Rhyl honorary secretary immediately assembled his...
A Dinghy
Took line to survivor MR DOUGLAS GiBBiN of the Hartlepool Co. Durham, inshore lifeboat, as reported on page 16, was awarded the bronze medal of the RNLI for the part he played in saving the life of a 16-year-oldboy from...
Special Gifts
"All my Pocket-Money." ONE shilling and threepence has been received from a little boy of Greenford, Middlesex, with a letter saying, " This is all my pocket-money; best wishes." No Tips! A cook-housekeeper working in...
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