LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Three Years of War.
In three years of war our life-boats have rescued 4775 lives. They have rescued more lives in these three years of war than in the last thirteen years of peace. In the four years of the last war they rescued 19 lives every week. In the...
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Corrections
In the Summer issue of the Lifeboat, in a news article on page 14 entitled ‘RWCs on station’, we mistakenly stated that Bude was in Devon.
Bude is actually in Cornwall. On page 13 we inadvertently merged two distinct...
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Skipper overboard
On passage to Brighton on 26 May for the start of a race the next morning, a 10m yacht ran into near-gale-force winds and 4m breaking waves. On the approach to Brighton Marina, the skipper was swept overboard. His safety line prevented him...
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Rambler, of Wexford
On the night of the 24th August the Life-boat Civil Service ren- dered a most gallant service to the crew of the schooner Rambler, of Wexford.
The Life-boat, on account of the tre- mendous seas, was quite unable to get...
James
DUNBAR.—About noon on the 7th March, when a strong northerly gale was blowing, the steamer James, of Greenock, bound to Campbeltown, was seen drifting towards the shore with signals of distress flying.
The Life-boat Wallace...
Awards to Coxswains
DURING February, March, and April, 1921, the following awards were made to Coxswains:— To JOSEPH JONES, on his retirement, after 15J years' service as Coxswain of the Bull Bay Life-boat, and, previously, 12f years as Second Coxswain,...
Category: Awards
Lark
In a strong E.S.E. gale, thick weather, and very choppy sea, on the 13th'December, the steam trawler Lark, belonging to Hull, and bound for that port with a load of fish, stranded on the rocks about five miles north of Flamborough Head...
Westkust (1)
Scarborough, Flamborough, and Brid- lington, Yorkshire.—On the 9th of December, 1951, the Scarborough life- boat rescued the crew of ten of the Dutch motor vessel Westkust, and the Scarborough bowman lost his life.— Rewards, to FRANK DALTON,...
Westkust (2)
Scarborough, Flamborough, and Brid- lington, Yorkshire.—On the 9th of December, 1951, the Scarborough life- boat rescued the crew of ten of the Dutch motor vessel Westkust, and the Scarborough bowman lost his life.— Rewards, to FRANK DALTON,...
Leicester City (1)
On the 22nd of March, 1953, the Stromness and Thurso life-boats both went to the help of the trawler Leicester City, of Grimsby, when she went aground three and a half miles south- west of Stromness. Fourteen men were picked up alive, but...