LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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JULY 30TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. A man had been swept away by the tide while swimming off Dumpton Gap, but the life-boat could not find him, and he was washed ashore, still alive, near Broadstairs. - Rewards, £6 7s.
Ran I
Drifting in gale A DUTCH YACHT, the 42ft Ran I, reported at 2238 on Thursday June 4, 1981, that she was in difficulties in the vicinity of Shipwash Lightvessel; her engine had broken down and she was drifting in gale force winds. She had...
Seylla II
Steering damaged BRONZE MEDAL AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY, 1986 found the Channel Islands in the grip of a southerly force 10 storm, which had earlier swept across most of the rest of Britain.
At 1935 St Peter Port Radio...
Mabel
In a strong south-easterly gale, on 26th October, the ketch Mabel, of Bideford, went ashore on the Dogger Bank, in Wexford Bay. The vessel, which was loaded with salt, was bound from Gloucester to Wexford. The casualty occurred soon after...
Lillian
NIGHT SEARCH THE life-boat at Buckie, BanfFshire, was launched on 8th August, 1971, because the 20-foot motor ketch Lillian, which had left Findochty at 3 p.m.
for Hopeman, had not arrived at her...
Book Reviews
• A new edition of First Aid for Lifeboat Crews has been compiled by the RNLI Medical and Survival Committee and will be issued this summer by authority of the Committee of Management to all lifeboat stations.
This book...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 7th October, 1886.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious Meeting. Also read those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck...
Category: Committee
Pilot Me
At 2.30 A.M.
on the 8th April the motor fishing boat Pilot Me put to sea to haul crab-pots off Marske, the sea then being rough.
As the wind and sea were increasing the Coxswain telephoned to Redcar at 7...
Racing Yachts
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.— During a regatta on the 23rd of August, 1951, the weather began to get worse.
At 3.15 in the afternoon a yacht cap- sized. At 3.20 other yachts were seen to capsize one mile north-east of the...
Annual Awards 1974
The Maud Smith Bequest Award for the bravest act of lifesaving by a member of a lifeboat crew in 1974 has been awarded to Coxswain Tom Richard 'Ben' Tart of Dungeness. On February 11 the Dungeness lifeboat under Coxwain Tart's...
Category: Awards