LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Daring innovation
To his friends and colleagues, David Stogdon appeared to live entirely without fear yet he was a survivor of at least two near-death experiences. In 1940, during the Second World War, the destroyer Brazen sank underneath the young naval...
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November
Launches 22. Lives rescued 7.
NOVEMBER 6TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
During the afternoon the motor fishing boat Dan O’Connell, of Arklow, with a crew of five, ran out of fuel as she was coming in, and...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th January, 1882.
EDWARD BIRKBECK, Esq., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
He expressed his high appreciation of the honour the Committee had conferred on him in electing him Deputy-Chairman of the...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 1st Sept., 1864. Capt. Sir EDWARD PERROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Keward...
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Lifeboat Services
j LIFEBOAT STOOD ON TRANSOM BY BREAKING SEA Seventeen saved from 75ft yacht aground in gale and 20ft breakers Two Hayling Island lifeboatmen, Roderick James and Frank Dunster, have been awarded the RNLI's Silver Medal for their part in...
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The Bridlington Cobles Serene, Eva Ann and Challenge
Knockdown THE COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Flamborough lifeboat station on Monday January 23, 1984, that three Bridlington cobles, Serene, Eva Ann and Challenge, had been caught in worsening weather north of...
The Bridlington Cobles Serene, Eva Ann and Challenge (1)
Knockdown THE COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Flamborough lifeboat station on Monday January 23, 1984, that three Bridlington cobles, Serene, Eva Ann and Challenge, had been caught in worsening weather north of...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
Si. ANDREW'S, N.B. —- The Life-boat placed on this station some years since by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION had done good service from time to time, it having saved 22 lives from different ship- wrecks ; but last year it was found...
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THAT SINKING FEELING
Sometimes you can do everything right and the sea will still find a way to catch you out. Two friends from Bristol found this out when they decided to hit the east Devon coast for the late May Bank Holiday
With...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
EXMOUTH, DEVON.—A new Life-boat has been placed on this Station, in lieu of the old boat, and the gift by Mrs. JOSEPH SOMES of Annery House, North Devon, of 3,0001. to the Institution to defray the cost of a Life-boat and its permanent...
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