LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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SEPT. 6TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. An explosion had been reported in the neighbourhood of the Corton Light-vessel, but the life-boat found that the light-vessel itself was all right, and there was no sign of any ship in...
A Trawler (4)
MAY 6TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK.
The military look-out had reported a trawler sounding her fog siren, but the life-boat was recalled when a message came from the Ballycotton Lighthouse that, after signalling “ mines...
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OCTOBER 17TH. - GALWAY BAY. At 4.15 P.M. the motor life-boat City of Bradford No. I, on temporary duty at the station, was launched to take a priest and doctor to a sick woman on Inisherr Island. Half a gale was blowing from the S.W. and the...
Faro
JANUARY 28TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.
The Norwegian steamer Faro, of Oslo, had gone ashore in Tarncliff Bay.
Deerness, but the crew of seven were rescued from the shore by the coastguard life-saving apparatus...
A Raft
At 12.25 p.m. on i2th June, 1966, the Skerries lighthouse keeper reported sighting a raft with 10 skin divers on board about one mile off Skerries. The life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched at 12.36 in a light south easterly...
Havant Branch
At home for round the world sailor: Sir Alec Rose, Shoreline member No 1 and president of Havant branch, (centre) with Lady Rose (third from r) invited 100 guests to a highly successful wine and cheese party at their house which made... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tijl Uilenspiegel (4)
Six lifeboats in search for missing Belgian trawler The new Tyne class lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, had a testing time during her first service, in a search for a missing Belgian trawler which lasted for 11 hours in Force 7 winds and...
People and Places
In appreciation...
Back in September 1992 Andrew McDonald was sailing his father's yacht Whisky Mac when she ran into trouble near the Channel Islands - see The Lifeboat, Winter 1992/3 - and the Alderney lifeboat was...
Category: Articles
Awards to Coxswains and Crews
THE following coxswains and members of life-boat crews were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and in addition those entitled to them, by the Institution's regulations, were awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance...
Category: Awards
Samarang
BEBCAB, YOBKSHIEE, — The barque Samammg, of Newcastle, timber laden from Quebec, was reported ashore about a mile south of Marske daring aN. wind and a heavy sea at 6 A.M. on the 10th October.
The Surion-on-Trent Life-boat...