LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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NOVEMBER 23RD. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, AND CLOVELLY, DEVON.
At 2.30 in the morning the Padstow coastguard telephoned that news had been received from the naval authorities at Falmouth that a ship was ashore at Knap Head, near...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
ABERSOCH, CAERNARVONSHIRE. — While the wind was blowing, with the force of a whole gale to a storm, from W.N.W. to N.W., with terrific squalls and a very heavy sea, on the 12th Jan. last, signals of distress were exhibited by the schooner...
Category: Services
Calais-Dover: Dover-Calais
ON the 4th of August, 1951, the Calais life-boat, Marechal Foch, paid a visit to Dover. She had on board Dr. P.
Drujon, president of the Calais life- boat station, and members of his com- mittee. They were welcomed by...
Category: Branches
A Hundred Years Ago
An extract from The Life-boat or Journal of the National Shipwreck Institution for May 1855 showing the Institution's income and expenditure from 1st April, 1854, to 3lst March, 1855.
To LIFE-BOATS, viz— £ s. d...
Category: Articles
Gang Warily
Two lifeboats in rescue of fishing boat crew from foot of sheer cliffsCoxswain Peter Race of the Teesmouth Lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for bravery following the rescue of two men from the fishing vessel Gang...
Reaching the limits
It was the morning of Saturday 24 May 2008 and the sailor, en route from the Azores to Ireland, was in considerable pain. He struggled to control his yacht in the rough seas that would inevitably worsen – gales were expected for the evening....
Category: Articles
Sailing on Through Stormy Seas
Highlights from the Chairman's report to the Annual General Meeting on 22 May 2003At the Lifeboats AGM in May, Chairman Peter Nicholson looked back over another successful year, but warned that the Institution needs to react to a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboats In Action
THE LIFEBOAT Atlantic 21 lifeboat B- 589 James Burgess Funding: Gift of Mr and Mrs A Burgess THE CREW Helmsman Andrew Coe Crew members Philip Brenchley Adam Cowell WALMER LIFEBOAT STATION Established: First established 1856; closed 1912.<...
Category: Services
Fee des Ondes
FRENCH RESCUED Youghal, Co. Cork. On 2yth October, 1963, the Youghal life-boat, Herbert John, rescued four men from the French trawler Fee des Ondes. A full account of this service, for which special awards were made to the coxswain and crew...
The Danish Coaster Lady Kamilla
Storm search A PROLONGED SEARCH was made by Padstow, St Ives and Clovelly lifeboats in a south-westerly storm for the Danish coaster Lady Kamilla, which foundered off Trevose Head on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1977, and for her crew of nine...