LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Carol, of Ipswich
Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 1.24 a.m. on 3Oth April, 1967, news was received that distress flares had been sighted three miles from Bembridge lookout.
The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched at 1.47 in a light south south...
Invermore, of Dublin (3)
Cloughey, Donaghadee, and Newcastle, Co. Down, and Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—On the 19th November, 1937, the disabled schooner Invermore, of Dublin, was picked up by the Cloughey and Donaghadee life-boats....
Jane, of Workington
On the llth December, the brigantine Jane, of Work- ington, and the schooner Prudence, of Aberystwith, drove ashore, in a very strong wind, near the North Pier, at Ramsey, Isle of Man. The Two Sisters life-boat put off through a heavy sea,...
Malanie, of Gosport
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 7.48 p.m. on 25th June, 1967, a yacht was reported in difficulties about one mile west of Hurst Castle. The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe slipped her moorings at 8.1 in a strong south south easterly breeze...
A Manx Tale
The Isle of Man and will always be synonymous with the RNLI, for it was here in Douglas Bay during the early part of the last century that Sir William Hillary, the founder of the RNLI, witnessed at first hand, the plight of seafaring...
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Lily of the West
PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN.—The Lifeboat Annie and Mary of Manchester was launched at 9 A.M. on the 31st January to the assistance of the trawler Lily of the West, of Douglas, which had been disabled by loss of sails. A strong wind was blowing...
Aileena, of Glasgow
JUNE 5TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. At eleven in the morning the Castletown coastguard reported a small yacht in Derbyhaven Bay flying a signal. A later message said that she had lost her small boat and that her cable had parted. A...
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st December, 1955 79,970 Notes of the Quarter THE year 1955 has been classified by...
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Centenary of the St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, Station
THE centenary of the life-boat station at St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, was cele- brated on 9th August, and a vellum, signed by H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G., President of the Institution, expressing the Institution's apprecia- tion...
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Invermore, of Dublin (5)
Cloughey, Donaghadee, and Newcastle, Co. Down, and Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—On the 19th November, 1937, the disabled schooner Invermore, of Dublin, was picked up by the Cloughey and Donaghadee life-boats....