LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sarah Ann
On the 6th September the fishing boat Sarah Ann, of Hoylake, returning from the fishing grounds, ran aground on the West Hoyle Bank. As the weather was threatening, it was decided to take out the Life-boat Admiral Briggs, and at 7.35 P.M....
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution During January and February 1879
NEWHAVEN.—On the 3rd January last, a dismasted vessel having been seen off the harbour, the Life-boat Michael Henry pro- ceeded out to her. The wind was blowing moderately from W.S.W. and a heavy sea was running. On arriving at the vessel it...
Category: Services
Noordster
On the 20th March the same boat pro- ceeded out to the Noordster, a Norwegian barque, at about midnight: it blowing hard at the time, with squalls of snow and hail. A prior attempt to board the Noordster in White's Life-boat had failed,...
Lodore
On the 1st March a N.E. gale was blowing with squalls of hail and snow. At about 6.30 P.M.
signals of distress were seen from the barque Lodore, of Liverpool, which was at anchor about four miles off. The Life-boat Louisa...
The Ocean Youth Club's 70Ft Training Vessel Francis Drake
Helping hand for youngsters The Ocean Youth Club's 70ft training vessel Francis Drake is pictured being given a helping hand by Ramsey's Oakley James Ball Ritchie on 8 August, 1988.
The yacht's auxiliary engine... - View image in PDF
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Gold Medal for Welsh Coxswain
Coxswain William Gammon, of the Mumbles, Glamorganshire, who won the bronze medal in 1941 for rescuing the crew of a ship wrecked among the coast defences, has now won the gold medal for rescuing the crew of 42 of a Canadian frigate...
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August
Launches 40 Lives rescued 93
AUGUST 2ND. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBJULY RIDES. About five in the evening information was received from the coastguard that a motor boat appeared to be in difficulties off Greanhead. A south-east...
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Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the National Life-Boat Institution In 1882
Jan. 3.—Fire men put off in a boat at great risk arid rescued eight men whose boa|, had been driven away from Island Crone, Co. Don- egal, by a sudden gale of wind from the S.W., on the 2nd January, leaving them on the island —which is...
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July
Launches 64 Lives rescued 28
JULY 2ND. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.
While bound from Montreal for Glasgow with a general cargo the Liverpool steamer Dorelian, of over 6,000 tons, stranded in dense fog on...
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