LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ngalawa
Prompt action saves life of lone yachtsmanThe rescue of a lone yachtsman from seas off Hastings has earned assistant mechanic David Curtis the Thanks of the RNLI Inscribed on Vellum.In his official report, deputy divisional inspector of...
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Conditions at operational limits Thanks on Vellum awarded to New Brighton coxswain Anight-time rescue in atrocious conditions on the River Mersey led to thanks from the RNLI for the helmsman, crew and shorehelpers of the New Brighton...
Hephzibah
THUHSO, N.B.—During a severe gale of wind from the N. and a heavy sea, on the night of the 5th March, the schooner HepJmbah, bound from Carnarvon to Newcastle, with slates, and the smack Annie, of Port Binorwie, bound for Wick, showed...
Protect Your Car In Stormy Weather
THE Prince of Wales, President of the Institution, the Duke of York, Prince Henry, Prince George, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Patron of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, and Princess Victoria, have all accepted for use on. their cars...
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Prosperity, Progress, Endeavour, Flying Spray and Success
Whitby, Yorkshire.—Early on the morning of the 15th April the local motor fishing boats Prosperity, Progress, Endeavour, Flying Spray and Success put out to fish. A nasty sea was running. Later on it grew worse and broke heavily on the bar....
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AN IRISH LIFE-BOAT AS AMBULANCE Galway Bay.—On the 12th of March, 1947, the Kilronan doctor asked that the life-boat should take him to a man who was very ill at Inisheer. A south-easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and no ordinary...
Mercury
ESCORT FOR PLEASURE BOAT VISITING ISLANDS North Sunderland, Northumberland.
About three o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th June, 1962, the weather began to grow worse, and by 3.45 the sea had become very rough. The...
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DUTCH SLOOP TOWED TO DOVER Dover, Kent. At 7.14 on the evening of Saturday the 7th September, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a 35-foot Dutch sloop had broken down between 300 and 400 yards astern of the South Goodwin...
Ariel
LAUNCHED AGAIN At 3.58 p.m. on loth August, 1965, the coastguard told the wife of the motor mechanic that a cargo ship was on the rocks five miles east of Selsey Bill. The motor mechanic was on his way home from the previous launch and was...
London Resolution
Penlee, Cornwall. At 9.10 on the evening of the 23rd of September, 1959, the coxswain was informed that there was a sick seaman aboard the tanker London Resolution of London. The tanker was expected to reach a position five miles south of...