LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Loss of Member of Exmouth Crew
AT 4.59 on the afternoon of Christmas Day, 1956, the coastguard informed the Exmouth honorary secretary, Mr.
P. H. C. Butler, that a vessel was burning- red flares four miles south- east of Orcombc Point. This is about...
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Cut off by tide INFORMATION THAT A MAN had been reported cut off by the tide below the cliffs in the vicinity of the Coastguard lookout was passed to the honorary secretary of Whitby lifeboat station at 1630 on Sunday, June 5. The assembly...
The Spanish Trawlers Monte Izankun and Costa da Isolda
Trawlers aided TWO SPANISH trawlers in difficulties two miles north of Skelligs rocks—one had a rope fouling her propeller and the other had engine trouble—on November 9, 1972, led to the Valentia, Co. Kerry, lifeboat being...
A Motor Boat
Stranded on rocks ON HEARING FROM BARRY COASTGUARD, at 2220 on Saturday, September 13, 1975, that red flares had been reported to the west of Brean Down, the honorary secretary of Weston-super-Mare gave instructions for the maroons to be...
Fidelity
Fishermen plucked to safety from vessel in danger of capsize Coxswain John C. Murray of Buckle lifeboat station has been congratulated on the 'leadership, determination and skill' he displayed during a service to the fishing vessel...
The Sailing Barge Olive May and theYachts Marieta and Saeth (1)
Effective co-operation A FRESH WEST by southerly breeze gusting to near gale, force 7, was blowing along the south coast off Eastbourne on the afternoon of Monday September 1, 1986, when the town's 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat was...
The Most Lives Saved
Feature The most lives saved A hundred years ago, a liner full of passengers needed saving off the Cornish coast – one lifeboat just wasn’t going to be enough After months at sea, the White Star liner Suevic was within hours of completing...
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The Four-Masted S.S. Eider, of Bremen
ATHERFIELD, BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, AND BROOKE, ISLE or WIGHT.—On the night of Sunday 31st January, the fourmasted s.s. Eider, of Bremen, 4,719 tons register, bound from New York for Southampton, en route for Bremen, stranded on the reef of rocks...
Six Life-Boat Men Drowned on Service
DURING the severe storms last December six Life-boat men lost their lives while on service. Five of them were members of the crew of the Life-boat at Rhos- colyn, in Anglesey, and the sixth be- longed to the Boat at Johnshaven, in...
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Some Ways of Raising Money
Birmingham branch had a busy time last October. In one week an exhibition at the New Street Shopping Centre raised a magnificent £2,700. The branch's annual dinner and dance, held during the same week at the Botanical Gardens, and...
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