LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Birthday
morning of the 30th October information was re- ceived from the coastguard, that a barge was driving off St. Margaret's Bay in a dismasted condition, and making signals of distress. The crew of the Life-boat Civil Service No. 4 were...
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ROADS BLOCKED WITH SNOW Lerwick, Shetland.—At 10.55 on the night of the 5th of March, 1947, a doctor who was urgently needed for a maternity case at Aithsetter, asked the life-boat to take him as the roads were impassable. A moderate...
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Realf (2)
New Brighton, Cheshire; Beaumaris, and Moelfre, Anglesey ; Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire ; and Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.
—25th February. Early in the morning the tanker Realf, of London, which was bound for Liverpool, in...
Roy Clemo
PENLEE, Friday February 14, 1986: at 0630 Penlee's 52 ft Arun class lifeboat, Mabel Alice, with Coxswain Ken Thomas at the helm, set out in a force 10 east by southerly storm and poor visibility. The Guernsey registered coaster, Roy...
Scylla
TOW TAKEN OVER FROM R.A.S.C.
LAUNCH Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 28th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the yacht Scylla of Beaumaris was being towed by the R.A.S.C....
Epic cycle challenge
‘I hope I remember how to walk,’ says the saddlesore Steve McAllister after cycling a good chunk of his 8,000-mile route. At the time of writing, Steve had just cycled through what he describes as ‘the unbelievably beautiful beaches and...
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Scimitar
DRIFTING BROADSIDE Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 1.36 p.m. on gth July, 1964, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a yacht two miles south-west by south of the coastguard look-out was dismasted. There was a fresh westerly breeze with...
Rainbow Flowers,
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An Ex-Naval Man's Gratitude
ON 25th October last, the Motor Life- boat at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, went to the help of a small boat which, while on the way from Walton to Clacton, had been carried out to sea.
The sea was rough,...
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