LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Saturday night, Sunday morning
An unconventional launch followed by 8 hours at sea in near gale force conditions – ‘business as usual,’ say the crew of The Lizard lifeboat, Cornwall.
At midnight on Saturday 11 September the crew assembled on the village...
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Paris Universal Exhibition. Model Life-Boats, Etc
WE annex a list of the various models and other articles which have been transmitted by the Royal National Life-boat Institution to the Paris Universal Exhibition.
I. We are glad to understand that these articles form not...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—At about one o'clock on the afternoon of Sunday, 1st October, 1882, the brigantine Eugenie Auguste, of Castletown, bound for that port from Runcorn with a cargo of coal, was observed to be labouring heavily and...
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JANUARY 19TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
An SOS call had been reported, but no vessel in distress or wreckage was found. - Rewards, £19 7s. 6d..
List of the Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution During the Year 1888
1 ,ives saved.
Akaba, s.s,, of Liverpool 3o Alabama, Vvarqae, ot Tonsberg ... 8 Albatross, barque, of Hernosan 1 —landed crew from the Tongue light venae!.
Albert H. Locke, brig, of Sund rlaiu 10 Albert...
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Your shout
My husband was involved in the rescue of a surfer reported on page 18 of your Autumn 2012 issue. He was pretty shaken up by the experience and we'd like to emphasise the survivor's learning, that surfers should never go out alone. We...
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Scrivens,
"NOW I CAN HEAR WELL I'VE A HAPPY HUSBAND" "I'm not what you'd call deaf", says Daphne Scott of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight, "but I am hard of hearing. It's made life difficult for years. As I got...
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Heilo
On 2nd January a wireless message was received that a steamer, the Heilo, of Oslo, was dis- abled with a broken rudder sixty-five miles away in the Atlantic with a trawler standing by. A whole W.S.W.
gale was blowing with a...
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FEBRUARY 4TH - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 3.55 in the morning the coastguard reported that a landing craft was dragging her anchor in the harbour and said that the life-boat might be needed. Another message at 4.20 asked her to...