LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Black Sue and Atlanta
Howth, Co. Dublin - At 11.48 p.m.
on loth June, 1966, a yacht was reported in difficulties between Portrane and Lambay. There was a gentle north easterly breeze with a corresponding sea.
The life-boat...
Gracie
North Sunderiand, Northumberland.— At 9.32 on the morning of the 22nd of October, 1955, the Seahouscs coast- guard rang up to say that a message had been received from the Longstone lightvessel that a fishing boat, with one man on board,...
Hong Kong Branch
To mark the First Year of operations of the new Penlee Arun'Class Lifeboat, the R.N.LB.
Mabel Alice and the Hong Kong Branch of the R.N.L.I,the Branch has produced a Limited-Edition Print as shown.
The...
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Kalavala and Camelot
Family rescued Nearly three months later, on the evening of Friday April 27, 1984, the station's own 44ft Waveney class lifeboat, Ralph and Joy Swann, back on station, was called out to the aid of a 30ft motor cruiser, Kalavala. She had...
Commemorative Items and Events During 1974 By Joan Davies
ON MARCH 4, 1824, a meeting was held in the City of London Tavern, presided over by Dr Manners Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury, at which it was resolved to form the body which has since come to be known as the Royal National Lifeboat...
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Climber falls THREE YOUTHS WERE CLIMBING down the cliff at Wylfa Headland on Wednesday, April 13, when a peg pulled out of the cliff and one of the boys fell about 35 feet into the sea, striking the cliff face and a submerged rock on his way...
Cap-Lizard
The Lizard - Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 6.48 a.m. on llth September, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a large yacht was firing red flares about two miles south south west of the Lizard West coastguard's look-out....
DOCTOR's GALLANTRY RECOGNISED
DR. E. J. GORDON WALLACE, who is chairman of the Weymouth life-boat station branch, and also its honorary medical adviser, has been accorded the R.N.L.I.'s thanks on vellum for gallantry when helping to take a sick woman off a Soviet...
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Dinghies
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex - At 2 p.m. on 25th June, 1967, news wasreceived that the local sailing club's rescue boats might not be able to cope if the sudden squall which had capsized 21 dinghies in the harbour got any worse.
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Cut off by the tide DURING THE AFTERNOON of Sunday, January 3, 1988 the station honorary secretary of Staithes and Runswick was informed by a member of the public that four adults and two boys were cut off by the tide a few yards from the...