LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Seven Gold Medallists
The eight gold medals were presented to seven coxswains. They were Robert Cross, of The Humber, who won the gold medal twice, and also the silver medal, the thanks on vellum and the George Medal, and helped to rescue 244 lives; Henry Blogg,...
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Halcyon (1)
SEPT. 27TH. - WALMER, AND RAMSGATE, KENT. At 6.45 A.M. the Deal coastguard reported a motor barge drifting ashore to the N.E. of their station. A heavy sea was running with a strong easterly wind.
At 7.5 A.M. the motor...
October (1)
OCTOBER MEETING FOLKESTONE, KENT. About mid-day on the 26th August, 1940, an aeroplane was seen down in the sea a mile from Copt Point,and three men put out in a rowing boat and succeeded in rescuing one German airman, who was transferred to...
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Inshore Lifeboat Services for December 1974 January and February 1975
Aberystwyth, Dyfed January 3.
Atlantic College, South Glamorgan February 1 and 2.
Beaumaris, Gwynedd December 8.
Broughty Ferry, Angus December 2.
Eastney, Hampshire...
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RNLI FAMILY: THE LIFE OF THE CHARITY
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
Happy retirement, Elsie
Elsie Miller, Honorary Secretary at Ramsgate RNLI, is stepping down from her role after celebrating an impressive 64 years of volunteering at...
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September (1)
BOURNEMOUTH, HAMPSHIRE. About 2.20 in the afternoon of Easter Sunday, the 21st of April, 1946, the pleasure craft Skylark sank in Bournemouth Bay about a mile off Alum Chine, with 70 or more people on board. The weather was fine and the sea...
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Porthcawl to Fishguard
It would have been easy to prolong our stay at St Donat's Castle and learn more of the work of the world famous United World College of the Atlantic and its multinational student population, but time and the seasons are moving on and, if...
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Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 121 and 130, the following launches on service were made during the months of December 1966, to February., 1967, inclusive:...
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Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1904
Jan. 1.—Six fishermen rescued fifteen of the crew of the barque Faulconnier, of Dun- kirk, which was wrecked at Travara, near Courtmacsherry, in hazy weather, a strong E.S.E. wind and rough sea. The men had taken to their boats, but it was...
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Haab
LYDD AND NEW ROMNEY, KENT.—On the morning of the 25th November, during a fresh gale from the W.S.W., and a heavy sea, the barque Haab, of Moss, Norway, bound from New York to Rotterdam, with a cargo of grain, grounded on the outer end of the...