LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Some Heroes of 1914
THE Life-boatmen who had been awarded the Gold and Silver Medals of the Institution in recognition of gallant services during 1914 were present at the Annual Meeting on the 21st April, and were introduced to the Chairman. In the case of...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
NEW ROMNEY, KENT.—On the 31st December, two French fishing-smacks were seen driving out of Duugeness Roads down on a lee-shore, off Dymchurch. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the S.W.
The Dungeness life-boat, the...
Category: Services
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
POOLE.—This Life-boat station has recently been completely renovated, the boathouse and slipway having been altered and improved, and the Life-boat, which was no longer fit for further i service, having been replaced by another and larger...
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Renown, Three Fevers and Sincerity
Open fishing boats FLAMBOROUGH COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Bridlington lifeboat station at 0918 on Thursday January 31, 1980, that the coble Renown was in difficulties one mile east of Rolston and some 13 miles south of the...
Schooners Reaper, John Snell and Elizabeth Austin. Fishing Yawl Good Intent
On the 28th October, about noon, a vessel was observed to be fast drifting on Whitby Bocks. She, however, succeeded in clearing the rocks, and was driven with tremendous force on the beach. The wind was then blowing a hurricane from the...
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
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The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
Category: Articles
Marguerite (1)
TWO LIFE-BOATS AND A STEAMER TO THE RESCUE North Sunderland, and Boulmer, North- umberland.—At 4.36 in the afternoon of the 17th of January, 1948, the Seahouses coastguard telephoned to North Sunderland that the local fishing yawl...
Audacity
New Quay, and Aberystwyth, Cardigan- shire.—At 9.23 in the morning of the 9th of January, 1952, the Fishguard coastguard telephoned the New Quay life-boat station that the tanker Audacity, of London, was in difficulties with a broken...
A Sailing Dinghy (5)
Hoylake, Cheshire; and Rhyl, Flint- shire.—At 9.30 on the night of the 5th of September, 1952, the Formby coast- guard telephoned to the Hoylake life- boat station a report from the Heswall police that two men had left Heswall in a...