LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Loss Of A Comrade
The loss of a comrade It is almost 10 years since RNLI Coxswain Hewitt Clark and Coastguard Winchman Billy Deacon attended the Green Lily, struggling in ferocious conditions off the Shetland Isles. Only one of these two brave men was to...
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The M.V Summer Isle
Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 1.25 p.m. on 3ist March, 1967, the m.v.
Summer Isle reported that she wished to hand over a body which had been recovered from the sea. She was making for Nab tower. The life-boat Jesse Lumb...
Rye Remembered
Popular Warwick folk band, Meet on the Ledge, have included a track on their new CD which tells the story of the 1928 Rye Harbour lifeboat tragedy.. - View image in PDF
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The Robert Anderson
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—While a moderate gale was blowing from N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 24th January, a schooner was observed stranded on the Middle Spit Sands. The Life-boat Albert Edward was launched at 5.15 P.M. and sailed to the...
The Keel Boat Courage
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 9.20 on the morning of the 10th of February, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was off Hayburn Wyke in worsening weather. As a whole gale was blowing from the east-north-east, causing a very rough...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Henry Albert (Buller) Griggs, of Hythe, Kent. He was second cox- swain for two and a half years, and for over nineteen years has been coxswain; so that he has been an officer of the life-boat for...
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The Austrian Barque Suez
At daybreak on the 20th December, the Austrian barque Suez was observed riding at anchor with signals of distress flying, about three miles and a half east of Newquay. The life-boat at that place was quickly launched, and found the vessel...
The Tide Making
As it makes it not only flows through the channels but soaks into the sands.. - View image in PDF
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Pictured Doing a Spot of 'Panic Buying' After Completing the Service to the Greek Tanker Kithnos Are Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan (Fourth Right) and Other Member
Pictured doing a spot of 'panic buying' after completing the service to the Greek tanker Kithnos are Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan (fourth right) and other members of the Humber crew. photograph by courtesy of Grimsby Evening... - View image in PDF
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The Life-Boat Station
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, {Deluding the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convoy an idea of the general character of one of the 308 Life-boat Stations...
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