LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Helping Pilots In Trouble
THE SOUTH EAST coast of England, as was the case during the war, still hears (and sometimes sees) military aircraft belonging to the R.A.F. and the U.S.A.F.
During this summer alone life-boats of the Institution have...
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The Dredger Hopper James 96
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 11.43 on the morning of the 24th of August, 1956, the Formby coastguard reported that a small vessel was in difficulties north of Formby float. The life-boat Norman B, Corlett put out at...
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The Guided Missile Destroyer U.S.S. Sellers (1)
Eleven rescued ON THE MORNING OF Monday, November 1, 1976, the uss Sellers, a guided missile destroyer, arrived in Jersey waters to pay a courtesy visit. It was originally intended that she should anchor in St Aubin's Bay but as the wind...
Lifeboat Services
Eastern Division Atlantic 21 escort IN HIS CAPACITY as harbour master, Helmsman Roger Trigg of Southwold lifeboat station heard at 1625 on Friday January 16 that MFV Concord, a 35ft 6in ex-Liverpool class lifeboat, had broken down...
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MARCH 29TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE, AND BEAUMARIS, AND MOELFRE, ANGLESEY. A report had been received that an aeroplane was in distress and another that three men had baled out of an aeroplane, presumably the same one, but nothing could...
Lifeboats and Lifeguards In Action
Brothers and stations uniteWhen Red Bay lifeboat crew were paged, there was no immediate threat to life for the couple on the yacht, Chtoe. Yet at Red Bay station brothers Tom and Paddy McLaughlin remember thinking: 'It was blowing a...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1949
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October Gales. Two Gold Medals Awarded to Moelfre, Anglesey, and Two Silver Medals to St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly
THE month of October ended with, a week of strong winds rising at times to gales, which reached their climax on the 28th and 29th. On those two days it blew a severe gale from the south and west over Southern Ireland, England and Wales,...
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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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