LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Last-Minute Rescue from Sinking Ship
AT 12.38 early on the morning of the j 2nd of January, 1956, the motor vessel Citrine of Glasgow, a vessel of 779 tons, bound from Llandulas for London with a cargo of limestone and carrying a crew of ten, wirelessed that her fore hatch had...
Category: Services
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fescue from the Johan Cottett, 5 February 1963 Coxsivain Hubert Tetit, guernsey TheNorwegianmerchantship/o/w iCo et( was 14 miles off LesHanois lighthouse, Guernsey, when her skipper radioed for help; his cargo had shifted and his vessel was...
Category: Medals
After the Opening of Troon Marina Last Autumn Troon's 44Ft Waveney Lifeboat Connel Elizabeth Cargill Took Part In a Combined Exercise With a Sea King Helicopter Fro
After the opening of Troon Marina last autumn, Troon's 44ft Waveney lifeboat Connel Elizabeth Cargill took part in a combined exercise with a Sea King helicopter from 819 Squadron, HMS Gannet. photograph by courtesy of HMS... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Holders of Lloyd's Medals
Cambridge, I May 1852.
SIR,—In the narrative of the lamentable wreck of the New Commercial at the Bris- sons, Cornwall, given in the April number of the Life-Boat Journal, it is stated by mis- take that I am the " only...
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Lifeboat Services
Three fishermen saved with just minutes to spare A;L long service in a severe gale and heavy, broken seas has earned Achill Island's Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic, Brian Patten, the RNLI's Silver Medal. The remainder of the crew will...
Category: Services
Two Scottish Lifeboats Capsize and Right
ON SUNDAY MORNING, November 18, the 50ft Thames lifeboat stationed at Islay and the 52ft Barnett lifeboat stationed at Barra Island were capsized while going to the help of a 299 ton Danish coaster whose cargo of marble chips had shifted.<...
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The North Deal Life-Boat In the Lord Mayor's Show
JDST a week before the Lord Mayor's Show in November last the North Deal Life-boats had carried out the very gallant rescues which are described on another page, when three vessels were in distress on the Goodwin Sands. It was felt to be...
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Eddie Dorman
Eddie Dor man member of the Padstow branch committee for 20 years. Eddie was box officer from 1982 to 1996 and he and his wife were awarded the silver statuette in 1992..
Category: Obituaries
Women's Work By Ray Kipling
Women's Work . . .
. . . IN THE RNLI IT IS NEVER DONE.
by Ray Kipling DEPUTY PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER, RXLI '/ don't know where we would have been sometimes without the ladies. No credit would...
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Paddling Hard: Boto-X 87
Paddling hard: Boto-X 87 organised by Kennel & Avon Canal Trust raised £7,500 for the RNLI over two davs during the summer. With the support of Devizes and Chippenham branches 120 teams entered the race in inflatable dinghies which... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs