LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Clovelly, North Devon. At 5 p.m.
on 22nd June, 1965, the coastguard reported that a helicopter was going to try to rescue a man who had fallen over the cliff at Lundy Island. The life-boat was asked to stand by. The maroons...
Call to Action
Lifeboat crew members are renowned for mostly being volunteers and they are called to action from their ‘day job’ by pager alert (see page 14). In contrast, most RNLI lifeguards are paid (usually through local authority funding) as, when...
Category: Articles
Loddon
JANUARY 26TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 8.5 A.M.
the coast watching station at Greenore Point reported a vessel in distress two and a half miles N.E. of Greenore. A moderate S.E. wind was blowing, with a...
Fishing Cobles (1)
During the morn- ing of the 14th May an E.N.E. wind increased to a strong gale, and this, in the face of a strong ebb tide, caused a heavy sea at the harbour bar. As the fishing fleet was at sea, and the crossing could only be made at...
Charles Francis
PADSTOW, CORNWALL. — The ketch Charles Francis of and for Plymouth from Newport, Mon., with a cargo of coal, in taking the harbour too early on the tide on the evening of the 14th January, ran ashore on the Doombar Sand. The wind was blowing...
Betsy
PALLING, NORFOLK.—The ketch Betsy, of and for Newcastle, from London, with iron, stranded at Palling, during a strong S.E. wind and a heavy sea, on the 1st of March. The No. 1 Life-boat, Good Hope, was promptly launched; but the water was...
Winifred Rose
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 9.54 on the morning of the 15th of September, 1953, the Gorleston coastguard rang up to say that the motor cruiser Winifred Rose, of South Shields, had broken down a mile south-south-east of the pier...
A Strange Gift
THE Institution has received the anonymous gift of the caul of a baby born in 1832. The donor sent it under- standing that " sailors prize cauls, as they are supposed to provide immunity from drowning." The caul has been given to...
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Walton and Frinton Medal Service: A Correction
IN the last number of The Life-boat in the account of the service by the Walton and Frinton life-beat to the London barge Esterel, the date of the service was given as 4th November, 1939.
It sheuld have been 14th...
Category: Medals
A Gift from Swedish Lloyd
ON the morning of the 25th of May the Swedish Lloyd Steamship Com- pany's new steamer, the 7,700 ton Patricia arrived at Tilbury on her maiden voyage from Gothenburg. She then came up the Thames to the Pool of London, and lay at New...
Category: Donations