LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
El Alamein
JUNE 6TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
During the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a motor fishing boat off Kinnaird Head appeared to be making for Fraserburgh under sail. Later they telephoned that she was...
S.S. Sard
FEBRUARY 20TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 4.55 A.M. the Tara coastguard telephoned that a steamer was ashore in Knockinelder Bay, and the motor life-boat Herbert John was launched at 6 A.M. A light south-easterly wind was blowing, with a...
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Trapped_men rescued from pier supports Sometimes the need to save a life over-rides all other considerations...
When Eastbourne lifeboat station heard that a person was trapped on a narrow ledge under Eastbourne Pier it was...
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Miss M. E. Taylor, of Clapham
By the death of Miss M. E. Taylor, of Clapham; on 17th May last, at the age of ninety-five, the Institution lost a friend who, in spite of her great age and the loss of her sight fifty years ago, found means to help it until her...
Category: Obituaries
A Schoolboy's Help.
THE honorary secretary of the Women's Auxiliary at Folkestone has had from a public schoolboy a gift, in the form of personal service, of the value of £6 14s. 3d. In the course of three holidays he has saved her that sum in...
Category: Donations
Enchantress, of Hamble
Off Selsey Bill A YACHT AGROUND in the Looe Channel and needing help was reported by Solent Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Selsey lifeboat station at 1910 on Friday September 9, 1983. Maroons were fired and at 1920 the 48ft 6in...
The Belgian Motor Vessel Eminent
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWBIGGIN FEBRUARY 4TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. On the night of the 3rd of February, 1940, the Belgian motor vessel Eminent, of Antwerp, with a crew of nine men, was on her way to Newcastle-on-Tyne.
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Exhausting Cliff Service THE Barmouth, Merionethshire, IRB on 21st June, 1971, was requested to help in evacuating a badly injured woman who had fallen down cliff's at Friog. In view of the prevailing weather conditions the life-boat was...
Rescued? By a G L Hardy
IT WAS THE YEAR I joined the lifeboat crew, and the second world war was nearly upon us. It was a bright early summer morning with a brisk breeze and I was sailing my dinghy through wavelets sparkling with the sun's jewels on their...
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