LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hidden Treasure
Our islands have a great heritage of constructing ocean-going vessels. But their shipbuilding glory days are fading – except where the RNLI is concerned
At the end of the 1800s, the UK was constructing over half of the...
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A Fishing Yawl and a Motor Boat
ESCORT FOR YAWL AND MOTOR BOAT Longhope, Orkney. At 10.45 a.m. on Monday the 29th of July, 1963, the honorary secretary was informed by the bowman of the life-boat that a small fishing yawl was being towed by a motor boat and they were in...
Sailing in memory
Friends of Andrew Bridge, the 21-year-old skipper of the lost yacht Cheeki Rafiki, set sail in his memory in August to raise money for the RNLI.
The trio took part in the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race. Despite...
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Tribute to H.R.H. Princess Marina
THE NEWS of the passing of Her Royal Highness Princess Marina, President of the Institution for over 25 years, was received with very real sorrow by all connected with the work of life-saving at sea.
Capt. the Hon. V. M....
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Mischief, of Carnarvon
On 24th January following the life-boat again went out, during a hurricane from the S., to the assistance of the schooner Mischief, of Carnarvon, which had gone ashore on the Parten Stiel Rocks, about a mile and a half to the south of the...
Theodorus, of Liverpool
On the 30th October, during a gale from W.N.W., the schooner Theodorus, of Liverpool, was stranded on the north-west end of the Salt- house Bank. The Robert William life-boat put out and brought ashore 12 of the crew.
The...
A Boat (4)
Redcar, Yorkshire. At 6.30 p.m. on loth July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat with two people on board had been sighted in difficulties 150 yards off shore. The honorary secretary and the mechanic used the...
Pedro
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 1.12 early on the morning of the 28th of June, 1957, the coastguard reported that a vessel was burning flares south of the harbour.
The life-boat Michael Stephens put out at 1.45 in a slight sea....
Royal Aeronautical Society Award
FLIGHT SERGEANT B. BREACH, of No. 228 Squadron R.A.F., has been awarded the Alan Marsh medal for the rescue of the crew of five of the North Carr lightvessel in December 1959. It was after putting out in an attempt to render help to the...
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Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 9.5 on the evening of the 13th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a boy had fallen over the cliffs at Horseshoe Bay and had been seriously injured. At 9.11, when the life- boat Jesse...