LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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NOVEMBER 5TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. During the afternoon information was received from the principal light-keeper of the Tuskar Rock Lighthouse, that one of the keepers had cut an artery in his arm and ought to be brought ashore...
Past and Present
68 years ago — From THE LIFEBOAT of 1928 With the recent success of the RNLI resource packs 'Launch!' and 'Lifeboats' (see feature below) as part of the youth promotion campaign, it is interesting to look back and see what...
Category: Articles
The Yarmouth Life-Boats
OFF the mouth of the River Yare, which divides the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, and has given its name to the ancient seaport town of Yarmouth, stretch a series of sandbanks, such as the Scroby, the Cross Sand, and the Cockle, to name...
Category: Services
Obituary
WITH deep regret we have to announce the death, on active service, of Lieut.- Commander H, T. Gartside-Tipping, R.N., a member of the Committee of Management, who was killed in action while in command of the armoured yacht Sanda, on 25th...
Category: Obituaries
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.
May Meeting.
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — At 2.15 P.M. on the 1st April the local motor fishing coble B. S. Colling put out to...
Category: Services
Rescue from a Norwegian Ship
AT 5.37 on the morning of the 21st of January, 1955, the honorary secretary of the Cloughey life-boat station, Mr.
D. Thompson, learnt from the Tara coastguard that a Norwegian ship was aground on South Rock and needed help...
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Anglers in danger HAVING BEEN informed by the Seaham Coastguard, Co. Durham, at 1632 on Sunday, November 11, 1973, that a number of anglers had been cut off on the drum head at the end of the north pier of the harbour, and that they were in...
Last Year 10 Pupils Average Age 10 Years from Danley Middle School Halfway Sheerness Arranged a Sponsored Marathon Badminton Match When They Played Non-St
Last year 10 pupils, average age 10 years, from Danley Middle School, Halfway, Sheerness, arranged a sponsored marathon badminton match when they played non-stop for six hours and raised £10 for the R.N.L.I. Here, one of the boys who... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
October
Launches 30. Lives rescued 19.
OCTOBER 6TH. - PORT ERIN, AND PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. Shortly after two in the morning the Ramsey coastguard informed both life-boat stations that a ship was in distress W.S.W. of the...
Category: Services
November
Launches 51 Lives rescued 52 NOVEMBER 3RD. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
At 5.42 in the evening, information was received from the naval authorities at Great Yarmouth, through the coastguard, that a motor vessel; outside Wells harbour...
Category: Services