LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
I'll Away
At 3 A.M.
on the 4th February the Life-boat Charlie Medland was called out to the assistance of the schooner Til Away, of Fowey, which was in distress about two miles N.E. of Mumbles Head, and making signals of distress....
A Motor Boat
Plymouth, South Devon. At 1.5 a.m. on 3ist May, 1965, the coastguard informed the life-boat's motor mechanic that a small motor boat about two miles off the Mewstone appeared to be making no progress. There was a fresh northerly breeze...
Swedish Journey
THIS is the story of a cruise among the islands of the West Coast of Sweden in August, 1950, by the ex Royal National life-boat Henry Frederick Swan, and her crew of Sea Scouts.
Henry Frederick Sivan, which is a 40 foot...
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Bacchus
Rescue from the Rocks RED FLARES sighted in a position one and a half miles south east of St Helier, Jersey, were reported to the deputy launching authority of the St Helier Station by a member of the public at8.30 p.m. on Tuesday, September...
Books
• In the annals of the RNLI new deed of gallantry are recorded year by year. From comparatively recent times, the very names of such casualties as World Concord, Netta Croan, Lyrma and Orion conjure up the high courage and fine seamanship...
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Two Dinghies (1)
Ennal's Point crew ON THURSDAY June 4, 1981, The Mumbles D class inflatable lifeboat was at sea taking part in filming for the BBC 2 series 'Ennal's Point' when, at 1930, a dinghy capsized with Gareth Armstrong, one of the...
Granton Osprey
Nine from rocks AS REPORTED on page 15, the silver medal of the RNLI was awarded to Coxswain George Leith, of the Lerwick, Shetland, lifeboat for the part he played in the rescue of nine men from the trawler Granton Osprey in hurricane force...
Life-Boat Calendar for 1932
As in previous years, the Institution is issuing this autumn a Life-boat Calendar for next year. We feel that there is no better way of keeping the work of the Life-boat Service before the public every day of the year, and we hope that...
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John Nelson and Sea Gull
ORME'S HEAD.—On the afternoon of the 1st February the Life-boat Sunlight No. 1 was launched in response to signals of distress shown by vessels in the bay while a strong gale was blowing from W.N.W. with a rough sea. The boat took off...
A Yacht (2)
New Quay, Cardiganshire-At 12.38 p.m. on 22nd May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing boat was in difficulties threequarters of a mile off Lochtyn Island.
The life-boat St. Albans was...