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Date: December 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 386

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 5.30 on the evening of the 20th of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that a man had fallen over the cliff at Monkstone beach, and that a doctor who was attending him had asked for the...

Victor

Date: May 1913

Volume: 22

Issue: 248

The motor fishing-boat Victor, registered at Montrose but belonging to the village of Johnshaven, when returning from the fishing ground on the 23rd October, got into difficulties owing to the un- satisfactory working of the motor, and as a...

Waterwitch

Date: August 1910

Volume: 21

Issue: 237

The Coastguard, at 8 A.M. on the 2nd January, reported that a vessel was ashore on the west end of the Mixon. Reef, and the crew of the Life-boat Lucy Newbon were quickly assembled and the boat launched. They found the barquentine Waterwitch...

Moelfre

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

MOELFRE, ANGLESEY On the 21st October, 1943, the Moelfre life-boat rescued the crew of four of an aeroplane.

COXSWAIN JOHN MATTHEWS was awarded a clasp to his silver medal.

SECOND COXSWAIN RICHARD M. EVANS...

Category: Medals

Excelsior

Date: Autumn 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 363

Bridlington, Yorkshire.— On the morning of the 9th of August, 1952, several small motor fishing vessels were at sea, and as the weather was quickly deteriorating the life-boat crew assembled. A strong south- easterly breeze was blowing,...

GET SWIMFIT

Date: Autumn 2017

Volume: 61

Issue: 621 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2017

These days swimming lessons aren’t all about armbands or diving for bricks in your PJs. As the nights draw in, we asked swimming coach Ashley Jones to help us become confident open water swimmers by next summer

This time...

Category: Articles

Fishing Boats (1)

Date: December 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 378

Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 31st of August, 1956, there was a heavy sea on the harbour bar. Local fishing boats and a fishing fleet from Scotland were at sea. Because of the conditions it was decided to launch the no. 1...

Shantico (2)

Date: Summer 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 577

Dangerously dehydrated On 25 April 2006, three lifeboats worked together to save a 14m yacht and her crew sinking off Ardlamont Point, Loch Fyne.

Launching at I.OSpmTighnabruaich's B class Alec and Maimie Preston was...

Cargo ship medevac

Date: Spring 2015

Volume: 61

Issue: 611 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2015

TENBY | 21 OCTOBER
Tenby lifeboat crew evacuated an injured man from a 135m container ship. One of the ship’s officers had a deep cut to his hand. He’d caught it in a door that slammed shut in heavy...

Category: Articles

A Ship's Boat

Date: December 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 394

Margate, Kent. At 6.37 on the even- ing of the 29th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a ship's boat was flying a distress signal about a mile and a half east of Kingsgate. The life-boat North...