LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
27 Months of War.
In the first 27 months of war life-boats have rescued 4325 lives. They have rescued more lives in these 27 months than in the last twelve years of peace..
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Irish Coxswain's Third Medal.
Coxswain Patrick Sliney, of Ballycotton, who has already won the Institution's gold and bronze medals, has now won its silver medal for saving an Irish steamer and her crew of 35 men. The steamer's engines had failed and heavy seas...
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Mystery wreck
1 November 2011: A fouled net is quite a common problem for fishermen around our coasts, but the crew of the trawler Sally-Jane were shocked to find that their nets had snagged on a wrecked yacht. Fearing for the...
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I name this lifeboat ...
If you could name a lifeboat, what would you pick? One of our youngest supporters, Rachel Fairhurst (13) from Gateshead, has called a Shannon class lifeboat Storm Rider.
Members of Storm Force, the RNLI club for children,...
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Value of Barometrical Indication
ON the occasion of the hurricane which swept the island of St. Kilda, in the Hebrides, on the 3rd Oct. last, and inflicted such distressing loss on its poor inhabitants, the following were the indications of a Kew Verified Barometer, on...
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An Aeroplane (3)
JANUARY 16TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM. A British aeroplane had crashed into the sea in a mined area, but the life-boat was recalled and naval vessels went out.- Rewards, £6 12s.
Fauvette, of London
FEBRUARY 3RD. - COVERACK, CORNWALL. At 6.5 in the morning a man reported a steamer in distress near Lowland Point, and the motor life-boat The Three Sisters was launched at 6.20. A strong westsouth- westerly wind was blowing,...
A Steamer (8)
FEBRUARY 20TH. - SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. A steamer had been mined east of the Tyne Piers, but she was beached and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards , £7 15s. 6d.
None (13)
JUNE 1ST. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.
Two girls had been cut off by the tide at Llanelly, but they reached safety without the life-boat’s help.-Rewards, £2 5s.
A Raft (1)
OCTOBER 25TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY.
At 5 P.M. the Kerryhead look-out reported that a raft was floating in Tralee Bay, about two miles south of the head, and the motor life-boat City of Bradford I, on temporary duty at the...