LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fred Everard
DETAILS TO COME On 2yth November, 1965, the lifeboat Mary Ann Hepworth rescued the crew of the motor vessel Fred Everard of London. A full account of this service will appear in the June issue of THE LIFE-BOAT, which will also contain a full...
A Fire at a Building Yard. Three Life-Boats Destroyed
ON 18th June a fire at the building yard of Messrs. Groves and Guttridge, Cowes, destroyed three motor life-boats and a quantity of the Institution's timber. The life-boats were those from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, and Selsey, Sussex,...
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Notes on Building a Life-Boat
IN the last number of the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL an account was given of the steps taken to select a new Life-boat, and it may now be of interest to give a few notes as to the way she is built.
For many years, indeed since 1899,...
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JOINT RESPONSE
A swimmer gets into danger off the coast of Northern Ireland – just as local RNLI lifeguards are about to clock off for the night
Wednesday 27 June, and another day was drawing to a close on Portrush’s East Strand Beach....
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A Sailboard
Windsurfer saved in raging gale Windsurfer Peter Waters was enjoying a great day in the surf at Porthcawl on 26 January 2002 when a sudden wind knocked him through his sail and into the water. 'I was about half a mile out to sea,' he...
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Argo
CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.—The barque Argo, of Fredrikstad, was totally wrecked near Macharioch on the 27th February, but happily nine of her crew were saved. The crew of the Life-boat at Southend were assembled, but as it was very doubtful...
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A Royal Air Force Rescue Launch
Anstruther, Fifeshlre. — About two o'clock on the afternoon of the 15th of December, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a Royal Air Force rescue launch had picked up a badly injured airman from an R.A.F. heli- copter, which during...
A Dinghy
Hastings, Sussex.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 7th of Mav, 1055, the Fail-light coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the Eastbourne police that two men were adrift in a dinghy two miles off Langney Point....