LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Drifter Yankee Girl
JAN. 2ND. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK.
At 8 P.M. the life-boat coxswain saw a flare about three miles south of Ballycotton Light.
A moderate W.N.W. breeze was blowing with a heavy swell. The S.S. Innisfallen...
Disaster to the Rye Life-Boat. The Whole Crew Drowned
THE worst disaster which has fallen on the Life-boat Service for many years occurred on 15th November. It fell with crushing weight on the gallant Life-boat Crew of the little village of Rye Harbour, sweeping away practically the whole adult...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1949
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The Nore Review
Richard Wakeley, aged 12, Perm Cottage, Nore Road, Portishead, near Bristol, produces The Nore Review which he writes and illustrates, distributing carbon copies on foolscap paper to readers.
In December he wrote to Cdr....
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At the Sharp End
PUMP FLOATED ACROSS TO LEAKING CASUALTY IN STORM FORCE WINDS Five saved in 12-hour service to sinking trawler Number North Division Number's Arun class Kenneth Thelwall was away from her station for 12 hours in winds up to Force 10 when...
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At the Sharp End
• Wo matter how experienced and well prepared you are every small-boat sailor knows that problems can still arise seemingly out of the blue. This was some consolation to the RNLI's own Chief of Operations during the Round the Island Race...
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Tinker
At 1.15 A.M. on the 23rd August the coxswain was told by the coastguard that a small vessel was burning distress signals about one mile N.E. of Lade coastguard station, A moderate southerly gale was blowing, with a choppy sea, and thick rain...
Maid of the Harbour
Casualties as pleasure boat collides with landing craft Poole's 33ft Brede and Boston Whaler lifeboats were called to a major emergency inside Poole Harbour on 26 June 1988.
Maid of the Harbour, a large pleasure craft...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 5th May, 1859. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
WHITBY.—On the 1st October, at 4 P.M., the Life-boat Harriott Forteath was launched and put four of the crew of a Cornish fishing-boat, the Matchless, on board their vessel, which was riding at anchor near Whitby Rock, and was in great...
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