LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Seafarer (1)
At 1.50 p.m. on 20th October, 1966, a longshore boat was seen burning a red flare off Pakefield beach, two miles north of Lowestoft harbour entrance. The lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick slipped her moorings ten minutes later in a fresh...
Ancient and modern
Whitstable’s B class lifeboat Oxford Town & Gown helped save the 1901-built wooden sailing barge Marjorie, which was holed in a collision during a barge race on 9 August. When the lifeboat arrived on scene, Marjorie had already been...
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Grapple with gremlins
On 17 September, the trawler Dorothy May ran out of fuel, having been using it at a faster rate than usual.
A further fault meant that her battery hadn’t charged and she lost electrical power, rendering her radio useless....
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Feature Keeping It Covered
The RNLI has a commitment to the UK and Irish governments to provide a lifeboat service for both countries - that means covering a massive 8,850 miles of coastline up to 50 miles out to sea. In order to provide this search and rescue cover,...
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News
Your guide to what's been going on in the world of the RNLI
NEW LIFEGUARD AND SWIM SAFE LOCATIONS FOR A SAFER SUMMER
RNLI lifeguards will patrol eight new beaches this summer, including Camber Sands....
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Last Year's Wrecks
THE approximate value of vessels of all nation- alities, with their cargoes, lost in all parts of the world during the year 1880, was no less than 68,327,000?., including British property 47,495,000?.
The grand total number...
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North Wales
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—On the evening of Sunday, 16th January, a letter was re-ceived by a messenger from Palling, stating that two ships were on the Hasborough Sand. A steam-tug was obtained from Great Yarmouth, and the Caister No. 2 Life-boat,...
Minotaur
— On the 28th March, during moderately rough weather a message was received by telephone stating that a steam trawler had stranded, and was in great danger near the old foundation of the Kilasea Beacon. The crew of the Life-boat Doc.ea...
Hetty
At about 5.20 A.M. on the 22nd January, signals of distress were observed on the schooner Hetty, of Falmouth, which was in Fishguard Bay. In response the crew of the Motor Life-Boat Charter- house were assembled, and the boat...
A French Schooner
7th December. A French schooner ran ashore, but got away unaided. The master expressed his thanks for the launch of the Life-boat.—Rewards, £3 Is. 9d..