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RESCUE

Date: Spring 2017

Volume: 61

Issue: 619 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2017

Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year (see launches on page 36). Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the list below for more reports:
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Category: Articles

Bispham

Date: August 1897

Volume: 16

Issue: 185

ABERSOCH.—At 1.30 A.M. on the 23rd January the Life - boat Oldham waslaunched, signal - rockets having been fired from the direction of St. TudwelFs Island. The wind was blowing a moderate gale from E.N.E., with snow squalls and very cold...

A Small Metal Dinghy

Date: Summer 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 359

Filey, Yorkshire.—At 4.45 in the afternoon of the 18th of August, 1951, the coxswain heard that a small metal dinghy with an outboard motor had not been seen since three o'clock. He informed the coastguard, and at 5.0 the life-boat The...

Lodore

Date: November 1908

Volume: 20

Issue: 230

On the 1st March a N.E. gale was blowing with squalls of hail and snow. At about 6.30 P.M.

signals of distress were seen from the barque Lodore, of Liverpool, which was at anchor about four miles off. The Life-boat Louisa...

Fishing Smacks (1)

Date: November 1877

Volume: 10

Issue: 106

SHERINGHAM.— On the 21st May the Life-boat Duncan was launched to assist several fishing-smacks which, having beencaught out at sea by sudden bad weather from the N.E., were in danger of being swamped while beaching..

Daphne

Date: September 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 381

Humber, Yorkshire.—At 8.55 on the morning of the 15th of May, 1957, the coastguard reported that the steamer Ewell'"h.a& picked up a small motor boat named Daphne, with three men aboard her, seven and a half miles north-west of...

Poole - New Lifeboat House

Date: Summer 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 513

A new era in the history of Poole's lifeboats began on 27 July 1990 when the Mayor of Poole, Councillor Mrs Anne Stribley, unveiled a plaque to mark the opening of the new lifeboat house in a very visible position next to the lifting... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Mercury Direct

Date: Spring 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 556

SUPERB CYPRUS WIN CYPRUS 1 WEEK FROM HALF BOARD £269 2 WEEKS HALF BOARD FROM £329 3RD WEEK FREE ON BED & BREAKFAST Endless days under blue skies with warm sunshine and sparkling sea - Cyprus is an ideal place for a wintersun...

Category: Advertisement

A Seafire Aircraft (1)

Date: Spring 1953

Volume: 33

Issue: 365

Clogher Head, Co. Louth; and Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 22nd of May, 1953, the Air Control Officer, Irish Air Corps, at Baldonnell rang up the Clogher Head life-boat station to say that a Seafire aircraft of the Irish...

Eagle

Date: February 1905

Volume: 19

Issue: 215

During a moderate E.S.E. gale, signals of distress were observed at 10.30 P.M. on the llth September. The Civil Service No. 6 Life-boat was immediately launched, and proceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the pleasure yacht Ea/jle, of...