LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Modern Lifeboat Equipment
PEOPLE seeing lifeboats at sea for the first time have been heard to express surprise that they are so small. A lifeboat is indeed a small vessel. It has to be because a high proportion of rescues are carried out near rocks or sand banks...
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Services of the Life-Boats In June, July and August, 1951. 116 Lives Rescued
DURING June life-boats went out on service 39 times and rescued 27 lives.
HOPE FOR THE FISH HARVEST Longhope, Orkneys.—At 1.57 on the morning of the 1st of June, 1951, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the fishing...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services
South West Division Among rocks A YACHT firing red flares near Green Island was reported by Police HQ at 0326 on Saturday September 3, 1983, to the deputy assistant harbour master at St Helier, who is also deputy launching authority of St...
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Signals of Distress
SIGNALS OF DISTRESS.
THE terrible loss of the Nbrthfleet, and of nearly 400 human beings, who had en- trusted themselves to her safe keeping, has strikingly indicated the need, which had often previously been felt, of some...
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Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1902
Jan. 9.—Five men put off in'a boat and at moderate risk rescued three fishermen whose boat had been overtaken by a S.S.W. gale and a rough sea, on the 23rd December, in Llan- dudno Bay.—Reward, II. 5s.
Jan. 9.—Voted...
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An Aeroplane (14)
FEBRUARY 27TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
At 3.40 P.M. an aeroplane crashed in the sea about two miles N.E. of the life-boat station, and life-boatmen standing by at the boathouse saw part of it above water. Sevenminutes later the...
Inside the Trent
Trent Lifeboat The Trent class is the smaller of the RNLI's new lifeboat designs which have been designed to replace the Waveney and Arun classes of lifeboat.
There are now 21 Trents in service and their coxswains and...
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Mavan
Caister, Norfolk.—The pulling and sailing life-boat Charles Burton was launched at 7 A.M. on the 25th April, as a vessel had stranded on the west side of the Barber Sands. She found the yacht Mavan, with two men on board, on the sands N.W....
Orkney Coxswain Wins Second Silver Medal
COXSWAIN Daniel Kirkpatrick of Longhope has achieved the unusual distinction of being awarded the Institution's silver medal for gallantry for the second time. His second award was made for the rescue of nine men from the Aberdeen...
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Sailing Dinghy Sea Elf
Boulmer, Northumberland. At 3.46 on the afternoon of the 21st August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy was in difficulties off Howick Seahouses farm.
At 3.58 on the ebbing tide the...