LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
ACKERGILL, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. — A telegram having been received on the 2nd Jan., 1903, from Keiss Village, that a vessel had run aground on the sands, the Life-boat Jonathan Marshall, Sheffield, was launched shortly after 11 A.M., and...
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Cover Picture
Launch! The Lizard-Cadgwith lifeboat, The Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service No. 33), a 52' Barnett housed slipway boat built in 1960, was named by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh on July 7, 1961. She has launched on service 56 times and saved 58... - View image in PDF
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Fife's Own
The motor fishing boat Fife's Own put to sea on the night of the 16th July for long line fishing. The weather changed, and by noon next day a strong N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and rain.
A watch was kept...
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded In 1875
Jan. 1.—JOHN ROWNAN, of Knalton, Co. Wa- terford, on the occasion' of the wreck of the barque Gwmissa, at Knalton Cove, afforded shel- ter to 3 of the crew who had got ashore, and af- terwards assisted to save 6 others of- the crew, all...
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Febo
PENARTH, GLAMORGANSHIRE.—At 1 P.M.
on the 14th October the barque Febo, of Genoa, exhibited signals of distress, having lost her fore and mainmasts, and having parted from three chain cables.
A steam-tug...
Book Reviews
• Grahame Farr's The Tubular Lifeboats 1850-1939 is in many ways the most interesting of his papers on lifeboat history. It is available from the author at 98 Combe Avenue, Portishead, Bristol BS20 9JX, price 60p including posting and...
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Books
• In his latest book, Rescue by Sail and Oar (Tops'l Books, £2.50), Ray Kipling, the RNLFs public relations officer, has written an absorbing account of the long period during which lifeboats were driven by muscle and windpower...
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A Catamaran Floral Dancer
Catamaran out of control A CATAMARAN, Floral Dancer of Falmouth with a crew of three aboard, out of control and needing help was reported to the honorary secretary of Sennen Cove lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1347 on Saturday February...
June (1)
LOSSIEMOUTH, MORAYSHIRE. At 11.25 in the morning of the 21st of December, 1944, the coastguard saw a Mosquito aeroplane crash in the sea near Covesea Skerries, two or three miles north-west of Lossiemouth. The Institution’s auxiliary...
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Support Divers
Support divers Members of Goole Sub-Aqua club, along with family and friends, recently raised £232 for the Sport Divers Appeal by pushing their diving support boat around the streets of St Abbs in Berwickshire.. - View image in PDF
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