LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

St. Ives, Cornwall.—-At 4.43 in the afternoon of the 26th of July, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that the local pleasure boat Reaper, with a boat- man and twelve passengers aboard, had struck a rock between Wicca Point and Zennor Point,...

On the llth Sep- tember, the smack Kate and Mary, of Ark- low, was observed riding at anchor in a dangerous position during a fierce gale of wind from the S.E., a boy only having been left on board. The Arundel Vendbles life-boat, stationed...

rescue Insight Here is just a handful of incidents from 2007 from around the UK and RoI to give an insight into the thousands of lifeboat rescues carried out each year. See pages 20–27 for rescues marked . 1 freeD frOm rOPeS aS water riSeS A...

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Advance, steamer, of Glasgow ... 3 Alnwick, schooner, of Beaumaris. . 3 Amelie, brig, of Frederickstadt... 9 Andola, ship, of Andola 28 Andrada, barque, of Liverpool— landed 19.

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Knights in shining armour left to right: Roy Turner of Christchurch branch committee; Geoff and Val Winship; one of the jousting knights; Dennis Duddy, branch treasurer and Eric Freeman, branch chairman.. - View image in PDF

Thomas Millar Nisbet, coxswain of St Abbs lifeboat from 1949 to 1953 after serving as second coxswain from 1942 to 1949. Mr Nisbet first joined the crew in 1930..