LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Fishing Boats
OCTOBER 11TH - 12TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, AND LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. On the night of the 11th the New Brighton No. 1 motor life-boat was launched, in very bad weather, to search for two overdue fishing boats. She could not find...
Silver Medal for Barra Island.
Coxswain Murdo Sinclair, of Barra Island in the Outer Hebrides, has been awarded the silver medal for taking the life-boai 4o miles in a southerly gale and rescuing fifteen lives from a steamer which had been wrecked under the cliff* of Skye...
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Mixed Rescuers
The Institution has made rewards to seven people who went out in two fishing boats from North Berwick to the help of an aeroplane. In one boat was the owner, his wife, a policeman and a chemist's apprentice; in the other a fisherman, a...
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From Foreign Life-Boat Services
Since the war ended the Institution has been in touch with several of the foreign life-boat services. In September 1944, as soon as France was liberated, it heard from the French service which reported that it had suffered great...
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All adrift
22 October 2011: Eastbourne all-weather lifeboat crew responded to the call for help from a cruiser with engine failure. She was drifting quickly and her crew suffering severe seasickness in the turbulent seas. The lifeboat towed her to...
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Paris Universal Exhibition. Model Life-Boats, Etc
WE annex a list of the various models and other articles which have been transmitted by the Royal National Life-boat Institution to the Paris Universal Exhibition.
I. We are glad to understand that these articles form not...
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Ann Elizabeth and Brigantine Commodore
The Ilfracombe life-boat also went off twice on the 19th October, and saved the sloop Ann Elizabeth, of Barnstaple, and the brigantine Commodore, of Waterford, and their crews, consisting of 8 men.
During a strong gale...
July (1)
CLONTARF, Co. DUBLIN. On the evening of the 2nd of June, 1945, a sailing boat from the Clontarf Boat Club capsized north of North Bull. A moderate south-west wind was blowing with a moderate sea, and the weather was thick. Four sea scouts,...
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Janet and Tempter
NORTH DEAL.—On the morning of the 27th March rockets and guns were fired by the Gull Lightship and large flares were burnt by a vessel in the direction of the Brake sand. The Life-boat Mary Somerville was launched at about 5 o'clock, a...
An Aeroplane (189)
NOVEMBER 29TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND. A British aeroplane had crashed in the Silloth Channel, but the lifeboat found nothing, and on putting into Silloth learned that the aeroplane had been found, but that the crew had been...