LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

PROPELLER PROBLEM At 1.40 p.m. on loth June, 1964, the harbour authorities told the honorary secretary that the harbour launch Pen-Cw had fouled her propeller on a wire rope outside the north breakwater and was drifting on to rocks. In a...

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Crew of five rescued ABERDEEN LIFEBOAT, the 52' Bamett Ramsay-Dyce, slipped her moorings at 1854 on Friday, March 12, and headed for Aberdeen Bay, after information had been received from HM Coastguard that MFV Karemma was broken down...

Os the morning of the 30th April, 1859, one of the most disastrous wrecks on record occurred on the Blackwater Bank, in the Irish Channel, by which melancholy event no less than 385 persons perished.

The American clipper...

To SIDNEY H. B. PAGE, on his retirement, after serving for 21J years as coxswain, G months as second coxswain and 1 year as bowman of the Southend-on-Sea life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, a gratuity and a retirement...

Lifeboat station histories The History of the Sheerness Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author at £2.50 This, the latest of the author's comprehensive booklets on RNLI stations, was published in late 1996 when Sheerness...

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Thursday, 2nd April, 1857. His Grace the PRESIDENT in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.

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