LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck of the S.S. "Rohilla."
THE services rendered in connexion with the wreck of the hospital ship Rohilla have added another splendid page to the annals of heroism and humanity which make up the story of the Life-boat during the ninety years since the foundation of...
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DECEMBER 22ND. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE. At 2.33 A.M. the coastguard reported that an explosion had been seen two to three miles south of Skirza Head, and it was thought to be either an aeroplane which had crashed or a mine which had gone off....
The Cypriot Coaster Primrose
Hurricane in Straits of Dover DOVER STRAIT COASTGUARD received a Mayday call at 2204 on Monday, December 1, 1975, from the 1,199-ton phosphate loaded Cypriot coaster Primrose indicating loss of steering gear in a position some 3 miles east...
New Ways of Raising Money
A LORRY decorated by the chairman and secretary of the Luton branch, Lieut-Commander Bernard McDonald, R.N.V.R., and Commander W. R. S.
Smith, R.N.V.R., with equipment supplied by the Institution's depot won the first...
Category: Donations
H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, K.G., at Blackpool. Naming of Motor Life-Boat and Opening of New Boat-House
ON 21st October H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G., President of the Institu- tion, named the new motor life-boat at Blackpool and opened the new boat- house on a site, in the centre of the sea front, provided by the...
Category: Inaugurations
The Life-Boat Disasters at Southport and St. Anne's
SINCE the publication of the last number of the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL, terrible disas- ters have befallen the crews of the Life- boats at Southport and St. Anne's, on the coast of Lancashire, the full details of which are given in the...
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No Small Tempest Lay on Us
AT a life-boat service held at Lande- wednack Parish Church, and attended by the crews of the Lizard, Cadgwith and Coverack life-boats, on 22nd August, 1954, a diocesan lay reader took as his text Acts 27 verse 20: And when neither sun nor...
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Life-Boat Perils In Mount's Bay
THE magnificence and terror of a gale on the rock-bound coasts of Cornwall can scarcely be exaggerated. The long impe- tuous swell of the great Atlantic, flinging itself on the rugged granite cliffs which guard the shores, is by its own...
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On Service In the Pentland Firth
THE following description of a service in the Longhope life-boat appeared in the mid-December 1962 number of "Motor Boat and Yachting." This is reproduced by kind permission of the editor, Commander Erroll Bruce, R.N., who is...
Category: Services
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
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