LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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TANKER FIRE VISIBLE FROM FIVE MILES AWAY Sixteen seamen taken off blazing oil tanker The collision which involved a tanker off the Humber estuary on 17 September 1989, and the subsequent fire, made front-page news throughout the country, and...
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The Fawn
About noon on the 31st July a small fishing smack, the Fawn, of Yarmouth, was seen to be aground on the east side of the Barber Sands. As the sea, which was very broken on the sands, commenced break- ing over the smack, and the crew had no...
Provider and Daisy
The s.s.
Ixion, of Glasgow, while bound from Campbeltown to Coleraine with a cargo of coke, came to anchor in the Skerry Roads on the 14th April. She had been damaged off Bengore, her pumps were choked, and her fires were...
Touching distance
A severed finger, no engine, rough seas: that was the harsh reality a yacht skipper faced off the Devon coast at the end of April. So how would he reach hospital?
‘All we knew when we launched...
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Lowering Ships' Boats at Sea
IN December, 1859, the Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION presented to Mr. CHARLES CLIFFORD, of London, a vote of thanks,' inscribed on vellum, in acknowledgment of his indefatigable exertions in inventing and...
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Ira
Caister, Norfolk. At 7.40 p.m. on 12th February, 1966, one of the life-boat shore helpers had heard a distress call from the trawler Ira of Lowestoft stating that the trawler was aground five miles south-east of Haisbro' lighthouse, and...
A Walrus Aeroplane
JULY 30TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At 6.1 P.M. the flag officer in charge at Great Yarmouth telephoned, through the Cromer coastguard, asking that the life-boat should be sent to help a Walrus aeroplane which had come down in the sea about six...
The Fund Raisers
Alors! Visitors to the Three Horseshoes at Turves, near Whittlesey, might have been forgiven for imagining they were in France rather than in the Fens of England. The landlord of the pub, exiled Frenchman Christian Kolich, and his wife Terri...
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Contents
PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 122 NOTES OF THE QUARTER 123 FOCUS ON DUNGENESS 125 NINE PEOPLE RESCUED FROM DUTCH MOTOR VESSEL 129 SECOND LIFE-BOAT MEDAL AWARDED FORTY-FIVE YEARS LATER .. . . 132 THE PRINCESS FLIES TO WALES ...
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Chariton
At about 1.30 A.M. on the 9th July, while the steam tug Helen Peele, stationed at Padstow, was returning to that place after her annual cruise, a vessel was sighted about two miles from her flying the " Not under control " signal....