LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Seaside singing
The Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival took place in June, with 23 groups from around Europe taking part. The event is one of the world’s biggest maritime music festivals, and one of its main aims is to raise money for the...
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Awards to Honorary Workers
Sir CHARLES WILSON, LL.D., has been appointed an Honorary Life-Governor of the Institution in recognition of the dis- tinguished services which he has rendered for very many years past, first as Honorary Secretary of the Leeds Life-boat...
Category: Awards
Timothy's toughest plot
At sea, things don’t always go according to script – which is what led Timothy and Shane Spall to head offshore
‘If I get better, we will get a boat,’ declared Timothy Spall. It was 1996. A...
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Flying Fish, of Whitby
On the 10th November, the brig Flying fish, of Whitby, ran ashore, in a sinking state, in a heavy E.S.E. gale, near Filey. The life-boat of the Institution stationed there was, as soon as possible, launched through a high surf, and proceeded...
United States Life-Saving Service
FROM the Annual Report of the United States Life-saving Service lately issued, we observe that on the 30th of June, 1885, there were 203 stations, 157 being on the Atlantic, 38 on the Lakes, 7 on the Pacific, and 1 at the Falls of the Ohio,...
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A Canoe
JULY 17TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 8.21 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a canoe, with a boy on board, had capsized oil Ness Point. A gentle S.W. breeze was blowing, but the sea was...
Free Lance
JUNE 9TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.
About 10.40 at night it was reported that the naval cadet boat Free Lance (a converted life-boat) was dragging her anchors north of New Brighton pier. A fresh westerly wind was blowing,...
May Lily
JULY 27TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
The fishing boat May Lily was overdue No news about her could be obtained and at three in the afternoon a request was made for aeroplanes to search.
They returned...
A Dinghy
JANUARY 29TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 9.31 A.M. the naval base at Great Yarmouth reported, through the coastguard, that an airman could be seen in a dinghy to the N.N.E. A light wind was then blowing from E.N.E., but it...
CATAMARAN CATASTROPHE
A collision in the English Channel becomes a challenging rescue for Dungeness RNLI
4.10am. Wednesday 8 August. Full-time Coxswain Stuart Adams is woken by his pager. There has been a collision in the English Channel and...
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