LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Manne de Ciel
GREAT YARMOUTH.—At 11.30 A.M. on the 18th January, a ketch was observed on shore on the North Beach. The Lifeboat Abraham Thomas immediately proceeded to the spot, and succeeded in rescuing the crew, consisting of four men.
Joint Exercise
An exercise was held in May, 1968, in which an R.A.F. Shackleton from Kinloss co-operated with the Lerwick life-boat. The exercise took place at night.
The Inspector of No. 2 Life-boat Area, Lt.-Cmdr. L. A. Forbes, R.N.,...
Category: Articles
Fac-Simile Reproduction of the Prince of Wales's Life-Boat Centenary Appeal
St JAMES'S PALACE S.W There is not a country with a seaboard whose vessels and seafarers have not, at some time during the past century, been rescued from shipwreck by the British Life-Boat Service I would appeal to all, to...
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Minstrel Boy
Four saved from yacht aground in heavy sea and swell A service by the Walton and Frinton lifeboat to a yacht aground with four people on board has earned the coxswain a letter of thanks from the Institution's chairman. The other members...
Hope
SIDMOUTH, DEVONSHIRE.—At about 8 P.M., on the 29th July, the schooner Hope, of Ryde, bound from Middlesborough i» Sidmouth with a cargo of iron and coal, which was lying less than a mile from the beach with two anchors down, parted her...
Sea Fox (2)
Search success AT 1820 ON FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1987, Tyne Tees Coastguards were alerted by the mother of one of two men aboard the Hartlepool-based fishing boat Sea Fox that the vessel was six hours overdue at the east coast...
Last word
'... in every way magnificent’
I was rescued by Lymington lifeboat crew on 15 July after my finger was severed. They arrived in only 7 minutes and were in every way magnificent. I lost my...
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Our Life-Boat Work
IF we could always have OUR own way in this world, we would doubtless make all work easy, all work pleasant, all work safe; we would fain do good to others, not only without risk of injury to our- selves, "but even without serious...
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Eve
Tynemoutb, Northumberland.—At 7.12 in the evening of the 20th of Sep- tember, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a sailing yacht, then two miles to the south-east, was drifting towards Frenchman's Point. The life-boat Tynesider, the...
Siox Kayak
Dungeness, Kent. At 9.20 on the morning of the 19th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a sailing dinghy was in diffi- culties two miles east of Dungeness Point. The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched at...