LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Style Rank and Title of Honorary Burgess of Beaumaris
The style, rank and title of Honorary Burgess of Beaumaris has recently been conferred upon Beaumaris lifeboat station. Councillor Stan Zalot, Mayor of the town and also a lifeboatman, presented the certificate and a town crest to Sir... - View image in PDF
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INSHORE RESCUE BOAT ON SERVICE St. Ives, Cornwall. At 4.3 on the afternoon of Sunday the 8th September, 1963, the honorary secretary was informed by the coastguard that a man was being swept out to sea at Watergate Bay twenty two and a half...
Helmsman Ian Mcdowell - Bronze Medal
Helmsman Ian McDowell - Bronze Medal St Bees lifeboat, 31 July 1993 Ian McDowell was in charge of St Bees' C class «g» inshore lifeboat when she saved the crew of two from a grounded fishing vessel.
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The Motor Boats Seagull and Jennifer
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 3 p.m. on 34th June, 1965, a member of the inshore rescue boat crew waS informed that' an flntboard motor boat had .broken down <$E St. Ives Head and that another motor boat had gone to, her assistance. On...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1904
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Category: Services
Notes of the Quarter
THE months of May and June were exceptionally exacting ones for the life-boat service. In May there were as many as 78 service launches, ten more than the previous record figure for the month of May. The number of service launches in June...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution During the First Three Months of 1877
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the afternoon of the 1st January, when a strong gale from the N.E. and a fresh in the river had set up an unusually heavy sea on the bar of the Tweed, the barque Result, of Guern- sey, which was bound from Sombrero to...
Category: Services
Pride of Erin (1)
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 3.27 on the afternoon of the 31st of January, 1957, the Southend coastguard tele- phoned to say the police had been informed that flashing lights had been seen from a vessel in Machrihanish Bay. The life-boat...
The Norwegian Motor Tanker Athos, of Flekkefjord
AUGUST 3RD. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At three in the afternoon the coastguard reported a vessel aground south of Holyhead in dense fog. There was no wind and the sea was smooth. At 3.10 the motor life-boat John and Mary...
And More Books
and more books continued from page 179 Standing Into Danger Two Hundred Years of Lifeboat Service in the River Tay and St Andrews Bay by Andrew Jeffrey published by the Dundee Branch of the RNLI at £8.95 ISBN 0-9527568-0-3 This...
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