LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
CAISTER, NORFOLK. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION replaced, in October last, its life-boat on this station by a new boat, the old one having become thoroughly worn out, and unfit for further service. The latter life-boat has rendered...
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The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, FOR THE PRESERVATION OP LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, " L. C. Wyon." Double legeud, " Royal...
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Thomas Booth
MARCH 16TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 10. 40 P .M. n e w s was received from the civic guard at Carne that a vessel was in distress off Carne Pier.
At 11.10 P.M. the motor life-boat B.A.S.P., on temporary duty at...
Santa Gata and Norwegian Tanker Realf
DEC. 1ST. - CROMER, NORFOLK, AND THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. Shortly after 7 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel standing by two and a half miles north of the life-boat station wished to land a rescued crew. A westerly...
Koo-She
Casualty taken in tow half-a-mile from rocks in on-shore galeThe RNLI's chief of operations has written to the secretary of the Sennen Cove lifeboat station commending the coxswain and crew for their actions during a service to a...
An Injured Man Stepping Ashore from the Cromer Life-Boat Ruby and Arthur Reed After Being Taken from a Boat Off West Runton Norfolk on 3Rd March 1968
An injured man stepping ashore from the Cromer life-boat Ruby and Arthur Reed after being taken from a boat off West Runton, Norfolk, on 3rd March, 1968.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
METHIL and BUCKHAVEN, FIFESHIRE— I On the application of the local residents a new Life-boat station has been formed at Buckhaven, on the north side of the Firth of Forth, where there are plenty of fishermen available to work the...
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Bannprince and the S.S. Ocean Coast
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 10.3 on the night of the 12th of November, 1955, a message was received from the port radar station that a coaster had been sunk in a collision near Formby light-float. Seven minutes later the life-boat Norman B....
Five Fishing Boats and Bairn's Pride
SIX FISHING BOATS ESCORTED Arbroath, Angus. On Friday the 30th August, 1963, at 8.45 a.m. the coastguard telephoned the honorary secretary to say that five fishing boats had gone to sea early that morning and were now returning to harbour....
Elizabeth Miller, of Thurso and Matilda Calder
On the 26th February this life-boat also went to the assistance of the schooners Elizabeth Miller, of Thurso, and Matilda Colder, of Findhorn, which were in distress during a heavy gale. The crews, consisting of 12 men, were brought ashore...