LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Feature Moving Inland
On 23 May 2001 the first RNLI inland waterway lifeboat station, on Lough Erne in Northern Ireland, opened for business.
Honorary secretary Sam McCreery and deputy launching authority Archie Birrell report on the events of...
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Around the Coast
FROM AN ARTICLE on Horton and Port Eynon ILB station by Mr C. R. Chatterton published in the Newsletter of Reardon Smith Line. Mr Chatterton is chairman of both the shipping line and the ILB station branch: 'Operating an inshore lifeboat...
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Two's Company and Martlett
New Brighton, Cheshire - At 1.16 p.m.
on 3rd August, 1969, the police informed the coxswain that the yachts Two's Company and Martlett, each with a crew of two, were in difficulties near Rock Channel off New...
The Fund Raisers
Alors! Visitors to the Three Horseshoes at Turves, near Whittlesey, might have been forgiven for imagining they were in France rather than in the Fens of England. The landlord of the pub, exiled Frenchman Christian Kolich, and his wife Terri...
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Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
A LIFEBOAT DISASTER may have been narrowly averted last December. Soon after the Padstow lifeboat had launched late in the evening of December 7, she was struck by three exceptionally heavy seas. A considerable weight of water dropped almost...
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Lifeboat Services
South Western Division Stood by in storm ON SATURDAY December 15, 1979, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Padstow lifeboat station that a vessel three miles north west of Trevose Head had transmitted a mayday distress signal...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution
SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
« Post firsniras Jlrcsibtttt—His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.C., D.&L.
Services of the Life-boats of the Institution in...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
FOWEY (POLKERRIS), CORNWALL. On the 27th March, 1872, the Dutch schooner Douro was seen in distress in St. Austell Bay, during a heavy southerly gale, and in a rough sea. The Rochdale Life-boat soon went to her assistance; and at the request...
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Lifeboat Services
East Division Among sandbanks AT 1621 on Sunday March 31, 1985, a coastguard auxiliary from Brancaster reported to his Great Yarmouth coordination centre that he had a board sailor in sight who was in trouble. He was lying on his board,...
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Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1900
Jan. 4.—Five fishermen put off in a coble from Staithes, Yorkshire, and assisted other cobles which, had been overtaken by a very thick fog and a heavy sea.—Reward, 11. 5s.
Jan. 10.—Three men, while fishing off Beadnell,...
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