LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gallant and Humane Conduct of Swedes and Norse-Men
DURING the autumn of the year 1852, a year that will long be remembered as one of the most fatal on record to the shipping of this country) the unprecedented number of 1115 wrecks having occurred along the shores and within the seas of the...
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Emmeline, of Bourdeux
The services of this Life-boat were also called into requisition on the 31st December, on the afternoon of which day a large vessel, distant some eight miles to the eastward of Sidmouth, was seen flying a flag of distress, during stormy...
Ten Ten, of Nieuwpoort
Ramsgate, Kent - At 12.5 a.m. on 16th August, 1968, the east pier watchman informed the coxswain that the yacht Ten Ten was aground on the harbour bar. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 12.18 in a strong westerly...
Wild Rose, of Brixham
On the morning of the 3rd December, the life-boat at this place put off, and rendered assistance to the brig Wild £ose, of Brixham, which was observed to be in a dismantled state off Cromer during stormy weather. When the life-boat...
Portrait of a Coxswain
Coxswain/Mechanic John E. Bryan, of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston 44-foot steel life-boat Khami. He was appointed in May, 1967, having previously been a full time mechanic of the former conventional life-boat. Since April, 1961, when he...
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Zamaya, of Dartmouth
JULY 14TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At 9.43 in the morning the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that there was a boat about two miles off shore, and, a few minutes later, that she was hove to and showing a distress signal. The...
A Gala Performance. H.R.H. The Prince of Wales's Idea
AT the suggestion of the Prince of Wales, the President of the Institution, the first presentation in England of the film " The Black Journey" was given in aid of the Life-boat Service, at a Gala performance, on 16th January last....
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Sybil of Goole
On the 13th December, the sloop Sybil, of Goole, got ashore on Thorpeness, when the life-boat was launched to her aid, and landed her crew of 3 men in safety: 1 man was washed out of the life-boat by a heavy surf.
Harmony, of Bideford
About mid- night on the 29th March a vessel was re- ported on shore on the South Tail, Bideford Bar, wind blowing strong from N.N.W., and a heavy sea on. The Hope life-boat was im- mediately launched, and succeeded in saving the crew of 3...
Pass of Leny
KILMORE.—The John Robert Life-boat was launched at 2.30 P.M. on the 22nd March, during a S. wind and a thick fog, and remained during the night by the barque Pass of Leny, of Glasgow, bound from Java for Liverpool with a cargo of sugar,...