LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Exmouth, Devon. •— 15th January, 1938. A rocket had been reported, but a search revealed nothing.—Rewards, vellum, letters of appreciation, and money awards amounting to £35 18s.
(A full account of this launch appeared...
A Tug
Lynmouth, Devon.—28th July, 1938.
A tug, with a barge in tow, was swamped in Porlock Bay, but the crew of seven swam ashore. Spectators made a collection of £10 for the Institution.— Rewards, £23 2s. Qd..
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Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, and Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—17th August. Four men had been cut off by the tide while fish- ing. Two got ashore but the others were drowned before the Lifeboats arrived.
—Rewards, Ferryside,...
A Canoe
Ramsgate, Kent. — 22nd August.
Two German students had been re- ported as six miles east of the East Goodwin light-vessel in a canoe. The life-boat went out to look for them, but they reached Ramsgate without help.—Rewards,...
Barfoun
14th October. The oil tanker Barfoun, of Stavanger, Norway, caught fire about forty miles E.S.E.
of Start Point, but was taken in tow by H.M.S. Wrestler before the life-boat could reach her.—Rewards, £21 25....
The S.S. Sveti-Duze, of Susak
Ramsgate, Kent.—25th April. The s.s. Sveti-Duze, of Susak, Yugoslavia, had collided with another steamer off the East Goodwin Sands, but both steamers were able to go on their way.
—Rewards, £5 8s..
Radio Caroline (1)
The life-boat Edian Courtauld put out on 20th January to the help of the wireless transmitting station Radio Caroline.
An account of this service, for which special awards were made to the coxswain and crew, appears on page...
The Strom Ness Life-Boat Alongside the Crippled Norwegian Vessel Kings Star (1,189 Tons) After She Had Hit the North Shoal—A Dangerous Rock Eight Miles Off The Orkneys
The Strom ness life-boat alongside the crippled Norwegian vessel Kings Star (1,189 tons) after she had hit the North Shoal—a dangerous rock eight miles off the Orkneys.
Also alongside are two of the vessel's own... - View image in PDF
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A Lobster Fishing Boat
On the 9th of September, 1955, the Is lay, Inner Hebrides, life-boat rescued three men from a lobster fishing boat.
For a full account of this service, for which the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum were...
Clarke, Chapman & Company Limited
MARINE A U X I L I A R I E S FOR LIFE-BOAT STATIONS This illustrates one of our electrically driven winches as supplied to the Tynemouth Lifeboat Station for hauling up the life-boat.
Many other winches of similar design...
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