LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Loss Of A Comrade
The loss of a comrade It is almost 10 years since RNLI Coxswain Hewitt Clark and Coastguard Winchman Billy Deacon attended the Green Lily, struggling in ferocious conditions off the Shetland Isles. Only one of these two brave men was to...
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Penthesilea
BRAUNTON AND APPLEDORE, DEVON.— On the llth of January, the ship Penthesilea, of Liverpool, manned by a crew of 30 hands all told, left Newport, Monmouthshire, laden with coal, for the Mauritius. She was towed down the Bristol Channel and...
Vrede
ATTEMPTING TO SALVE A DUTCH STEAMER The Humber, and Bridlington, Yorkshire.
—At about 10.30 in the morning of February 21st, 1947, the master of the motor vessel Vrede, of Rotterdam, which had gone ashore four miles...
The Exhibition Galleon Hispaniola (1)
Sennen Cove and St. Ives, Cornwall -At noon on 12th April, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Sennen Cove life-boat station that the owner of the exhibition galleon Hispaniola had expressed concern for the safety of...
The Belgian Yacht Haura (1)
Lifeboatmen transferred to Belgian yacht in gale and heavy seas A joint service by Southwold's Atlantic 21 class lifeboat Quiver and Lowestoft's Tyne Spirit of Lowestoft has won two lifeboatmen framed letters of thanks from the...
A Powered 25ft Pleasure Craft
Family brought ashore ON THE EVENING OF August bank holiday Monday, August 25, 1986, the week of Hurricane Charlie, the honorary secretary of Weymouth lifeboat received a call from the coastguard to say that a family was marooned on their...
The S.S. Empire Breeze
FEBRUARY 6TH and 12TH, and MARCH 7TH.
- AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 11.45 P.M. on the 5th February the coastguard reported a vessel ashore at Druridge Bay, and the motor life-boat Frederick and Emma was launched 35 minutes...
February (1)
LYBSTER, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. At 10 o’clock in the morning of the 4th of December, 1945, three men in the motor fishing boat Seaflower, of Wick, had completed hauling their lobster creels, when their boat shipped a sea which stopped the engine....
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June
June Launches 67. Lives rescued 178.
JUNE 2ND. - RAMSGATE, KENT. The life-boat helped in bringing wounded men ashore from a vessel.
For details see “ Evacuation of Men of the British Expeditionary Force...
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Index to the Branches
PAGE ABERDEEN . . 782 ABERDOVEY . . 760 ABERSOCH . . 729 ABEBYSTWTTH . 727 ACOCK'S GREEN . 775 ALDEBURGH . , 769 ALLOA . . . . 786 ALNMOUTH . . 763 ANGLE . . . . 766 ANGLESEY. . . 726 ANSTBUIHER . . 788 APPLEDOBE . . 736 ARANMORE . . 798...
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