LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Feature: Especially for you 2 From the Thames to the Clyde - meeting local needs Feature: Lifeboat Lottery 6 Win a Caribbean cruise and help raise millions for the RNLI Lifeboats in action 8 Including a trio of Bronze Medals for St...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SWANSEA.—The Harbour Commissioners at Swansea having transferred their life-boat establishment to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, it has been completely renovated ; a new 10-oared boat and transporting carriage has been placed there, and...
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Listings
Appointments Fred Breck - Stromness lifeboat station Coxswain Mark Criddle -Torbay lifeboat station Coxswain Rob Fossett - Lyme Regis lifeboat station Deputy Launching Authority Dr George Knox - Newhaven lifeboat station Lifeboat Medical...
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Hope, of Dublin
On the 20th August, at daylight, a small vessel, which afterwards proved to be the smack Hope, of Dublin, was observed to be on shore on the Horse Bank at the entrance to the Mersey. The Southport life-boat, in con- nection with the NATIONAL...
Friends, Provide Us and Serene (1)
Cobles escorted in gale THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Flamborough lifeboat station was told by HM Coastguard at 1010 on Saturday October 15, 1983, that a number of Bridlington based open angling cobles were fishing north of Flamborough Head in...
Lady Shirley
Filey, Yorkshire. — At 5.10 in the evening of the 29th of June, 1948, the coastguard saw the salmon fishing boat Lady Shirley capsize. . A fresh breeze was blowing from the north-north-west with a moderate swell. The .boat was close in shore...
Flying Fish, of Whitby
On the 10th November, the brig Flying fish, of Whitby, ran ashore, in a sinking state, in a heavy E.S.E. gale, near Filey. The life-boat of the Institution stationed there was, as soon as possible, launched through a high surf, and proceeded...
The German Ship Sunnanhav
Loss of power A GERMAN SHIP, Sunnanhav, broken down eight miles north east of Flamborough Head, was reported to the honorary secretary of Bridlington lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 0900 on Thursday February 15. She was being...
Sincere (2)
Search for missing vessel locates wreck A total of 21 boats, including the Scarborough, Filey and Whitby lifeboats, took part in the search for the fishing vessel Sincere with two persons on board, when it failed to return to harbour on 28...
James Lay
The steam trawler James Lay, of London, with a crew of fourteen on board, bound for Hull, laden with fish, grounded on Filey Brigg at about 8 A.M. on the 12th January in a thick fog. The sea was smooth. Cobles endeavoured to refloat the...