LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
"The Dutch Life-Boat Service."
By H. de BOOY, Secretary of the North and South Holland Life-Saving Society.
No doubt ships have stranded and lives have been lost and saved on the coast of Holland from times immemorial, but it was the year 1824 before a...
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Two Gold Medals
THE rescue from the Greek motor vessel Nafsiporos, in which fifteen men were saved by the Holyhead and Moelfre lifeboats, will probably long be recalled as one of the great achievements in the life-boat service.
Coxswain...
Category: Medals
Dinah
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 11.10 on the night of the 26th of July, 1948, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that a vessel was signalling for help with a torch one mile to the south-south-east, and the motor life-boat William and Clara Ryland was...
Coasteering calamity
19 July: St Davids, Wales A coasteering trip nearly ended in disaster when a 12-year-old girl seriously injured her neck near Porthclais Harbour. The inshore lifeboat crew arrived on scene at noon and gave first...
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INJURED TEEN REACHES SAFETY
TENBY | 9 APRIL
Tenby all-weather lifeboat crew raced to the aid of a 14-year-old girl, who had fallen on rocks at Barafundle Beach. Suffering suspected back and neck injuries, including a broken...
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Chota
A CAPSIZED YACHT Plymouth, Devon.—At 5.12 in the afternoon of the 24th of May, 1947, the Yealm coastguard reported that a yacht had capsized a quarter of a mile north-east of Mewstone at the mouth of Yealm River, and the motor life-boat...
Sea Cities of the Future
OFFSHORE cities, each with a population of 30,000 or more, and providing all the facilities and amenities of land-based ones, seem like a fantasy from science fiction, yet they could become a reality in a matter of...
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October (1)
OCTOBER MEETING ST.ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. About mid-day on the 13th of July, 1945, it was reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea off St.
Abbs Head. A light north-east wind was blowing, with a slight sea, and the...
Category: Services
Wild Goose
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. At 11.30 on the night of the 4th of September, 1959 the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a distress signal had been seen between two and three miles west-south-west of Towyn. At 11.45 the life-boat...
Out of the gloom
A fisherman lay injured onboard the world’s largest trawler, 200 miles offshore of County Galway
It was just after 7pm on 23 January 2010 and the crew of the 144m trawler Annelies Ilena had caught 50 tonnes of scad (horse...
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