LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Rescue of sailor leaves no room for error When a lone sailor found himself in trouble in Runswick Bay last September, it took close cooperation between the crews of the Staithes and Runswick inshore lifeboat and the Whitby all-weather...
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Rescue of sailor leaves no room for error When a lone sailor found himself in trouble in Runswick Bay last September, it took close cooperation between the crews of the Staithes and Runswick inshore lifeboat and the Whitby all-weather...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
RAMSGATE.—On the 3rd April, 1882, at 11 A.M., the Bradford Life-boat proceeded, to the East Goodwin Light vessel, which was firing signal guns. The wind was blowing a strong breeze from the E. and there was a thick fog. On arriving at the...
Category: Services
Strength and depth
In the English Channel, there are breaking swells higher than houses. Shrieking winds whip up a storm of snow, sleet and spray. Amidst it all, a huge cargo ship named Bonita, with 36 people onboard, has rolled onto her side....
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WALTON-ON-NAZE, ESSEX.—At 9.30 A.M. on the 26th Feb., 1904, a telephone message was received from the Gunfleet Lighthouse stating that a vessel was aground on the sands. The crew and helpers of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 were at once...
Category: Services
Perilous Play
RescUe PeRILoUs PLAY swept along by the powerfully ebbing tide, a 9-year-old girl’s survival depended on the reaction of her local lifeboat crew a powerful ebbing tide, a 9-year-old girl’s Jade Kerrison was playing with a friend at south...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
Three saved — • , — --. -—— from grounded yacht in rojjgh conditions The three crew members aboard St Bees' Atlantic earned a letter of thanks from Michael Vlasto the RNLI's Chief .of Operations following a difficult service to...
Category: Services
Shoreline Section
BOAT SHOW 1975: what a memorable eleven days. Here is a diary of just some of the happenings recorded on the Shoreline stand: Wednesday, January 1 Opening day. Arrive early to prepare stand and display insignia and enrolment forms. Impressed...
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Lifeboat Services
Eastern Division 141 hour service in severe gale A MESSAGE FROM THE YACHT Coronade to the Sunk Pilot Cutter, saying that a red flare had been sighted southward, in the direction of the Long Sand, was intercepted by Walton Coastguard at 1621...
Category: Services