LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats Belonging to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BUDDON-NESS, DUNDEE.—On the 3rd of December, 1862, the schooner Osprey, of Fraserburgh, with a cargo of wheat from Rostock, struck on the Abertay Bank, the weather being foggy, with a strong gale blowing from the S.E. As soon as she was...
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Books
• The early years of the Dungeness lifeboat station were ones of uncertainty.
The station opened in 1826, just two years after the RNLI was founded, and in the next 48 years was closed twice and moved up and down the coast...
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The Most Dangerous Part of a Boat...... is the skipper
Statistics show that more than half the RNLI's lifeboat launches are to pleasure craft. The situation is one which the pleasure boating fraternity is aware of, and which the sport's national body is making every effort to remedy.<...
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Him and the Crew and Sending a Donation to the Station He Said '/ Have Been Sailing Various Boats at Sea for 21 Years and Suppose That I Have Always Had It at the Bac
him and the crew and sending a donation to the station. He said, '/ have been sailing various boats at sea for 21 years and suppose that I have always had it at the back of my mind that the lifeboat service would come to my assistance in... - View image in PDF
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On July 18 1881 After Largs New Boathouse
On July 18, 1881, after Largs new boathouse, funded by a legacy from Miss Janet Brunion, had been opened by Mrs D. Jackson, the station's new Atlantic 21 lifeboat, the gift of the Independent Order of Foresters, was handed over by Mr T.... - View image in PDF
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THREE RESCUED Seaham, Co. Durham. At 6.42 p.m.
on 29th July, 1965, three men were stranded on North pier, unable to get back because of the waves breaking over the pier. At 7.19 the life-boat The Will and Fanny Kirby was...
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 3.45 p.m. on 8th October, 1965, the States maintenance engineer notified the deputy harbourmaster that the States of Guernsey launch St. Anne had found it impossible to take three maintenance men off the Platte...
A Dinghy
Troon, Ayrshire - At 4.20 p.m. on 9th April, 1966, the police told the honorary secretary that a dinghy had capsized off Croy Hotel and two people were hanging on to the boat. The lifeboat James and Barbara Aitken was launched at 4.35 in a...
Torbay: on September 22 1983
Torbay: On September 22, 1983, a young man fell 60ft into the sea when rocks crumbled beneath his feet on cliffs at Babbacombe. Two friends pulled the injured man from the sea, raised the alarm and then returned with blankets. Torbay's... - View image in PDF
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A Ski-Boat
Lyme Regis Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat returning from service on July 24, 1983, at the start of Lyme's Lifeboat Week. Manned by Helmsman John Hodder and Crew Members Robert Irish, Colin Jones and Brian Miller, she had launched...