LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
DOVER.—While a strong gale was blow- ing from N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 25th March, 1898, two vessels in the bay showed signals of distress, and at 10 A.M. the Life-boat Lewis Morice put off to their assistance. She first...
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May
Launches 26 Lives rescued 25 The War ended on the last minute of the 8th of May
MAY 9TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A dinghy attached to a naval motor launch was seen by the life-boat coxswain to capsize off Fishcombe Point,...
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Brighter Morn
Small trawler sinks SHETLAND COASTGUARD received a mayday call at 0248 on Wednesday January 16, from the fishing vessel Brighter Morn saying that she had run aground on The Ord, a headland ten miles south east of Lerwick; she was holed and...
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People and Places
Around and about the RNLI Jam on the Bread! Two stars from the popular BBC TV series 'Bread' drew the winning tickets for the RNLI's 50th national lottery, which took place on 31 July 1990.
Nellie Boswell and...
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Services of the Life-Boats In September, October and November, 1951. 65 Lives Rescued
DURING September life-boats went out on service 68 times and rescued 25 lives.
TWICE AGROUND Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 5.50 in the evening of the 1st of September, 1951, the coastguard reported that the yacht Alethea II, of...
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Closing of the Wexford Station
FOE the past sixty-six years the Institu- tion has maintained a Life-boat Station at Wexford, at the south-eastern corner of Ireland. It has been one of the most important Stations on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland, for it has...
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Lena, of Waterford
NOVEMBER 16TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. At 3.35 in the afternoon coastwatchers at Brownstown Head saw a boat in difficulties in Tramore Bay and informed the life-boat station. A strong south-south-east wind was blowing, with a very...
A Rowing Boat (5)
JUNE 27TH. TORBAY, DEVON. A boy had hired a rowing boat at Brixham and not returned, but he had gone ashore near Torquay and there abandoned the boat.- Rewards, £8 8s..
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