LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ideal Home Exhibition
EARL'S COURT LONDON, MARCH 6-31 FOR THE FIRST TIME, the RNL1 had a stand at the Ideal Home Exhibition this year. Modest in size, and situated on the balcony floor, it was a market stall, colourful with souvenirs and Shoreline display....
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Empress, of Sunderland
On the 4th January the Seaton Carew life-boat, after making three gallant attempts, but without success, to rescue the crew of the brig Empress of Sunderland, wrecked on the Long Scar rocks, took off the crew of the Jubilee, of Guernsey,...
Mary Cook
GIRVAN, N.B.—At noon on the 3rd March the smack Mary Cook, of Campbeltown, was seen to be drifting from her moorings at the north of the harbour, and was in imminent danger of being blown out to sea. The master of the smack, who was on shore...
Nellie
At about 3 P.M. on the 8th December signals of distress were observed from the fishing- boat Nellie, which had put to sea for the purpose of taking in their nets.
The Life-boat Theodore Price was launched and reached the...
New Dover Motor Life-Boat: A Correction
In the description of the new Dover Motor Life-boat, which was published in the last issue of The Lifeboat, it was stated that the boat could travel 156In the description of the new Dover Motor Life-boat, which was published in the last...
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Transferred to Board of Trade
Since 8th February, 1965, the responsibilities of the Minister of Transport in relation to the shipping and shipbuilding industries have been transferred to the Board of Trade. These responsibilities include the sponsorship of these...
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Chindwyn V
At 2.40 p.m. on 13th July, 1968, the coastguard informed the acting honorary secretary that a motor boat had fired flares three miles west of Portland Bill. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 2.47 in a fresh south...
Olivier
Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 5.30 on the evening of the 27th of September, 1958, the motor mechanic told the coxswain that the cabin cruiser Olivier needed help off Skegness. At 5.50 the life-boat The Cuttle was launched in a heavy ground...
A Canoe
Ramsgate, Kent. At 4.33 on the after- noon of the 21st of September, 1959, the watchman on the east pier told the honorary secretary that a girl was adrift in a canoe in Pegwell Bay some distance from the shore. Eight minutes later the...
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Galway Bay. At two o'clock on the night of the 9th September, 1961, the local medical officer asked for the use of the life-boat to bring a sick child from Inishmaan to the mainland at Rossaveel. As no other suitable boat was available,...