LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tank Landing Craft 898
NOVEMBER 18TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
Just after noon the coastguard reported a vessel not under control one and a half miles east of Filey Brig. A fresh northerly wind was blowing, with a rather rough sea. Both coxswains,...
Pride of Sherkin
JANUARY 8 T H . - B A L T I M O R E , C O .
CORK. At 8.35 at night the relatives of the crew of the motor fishing boat Pride of Sherkin, of Sherkin Island, reported the boat long overdue. A moderate north-east gale was...
The S.S. Ria de Cormes, of Cadiz
MARCH 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.35 in the morning the Deal coastguard reported a vessel in distress off South Goodwin Light-vessel. A northerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. At five o’clock, the motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil...
Highcliffe
FEBRUARY 6TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS. At 8 A.M. the coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore on Forewick Holm, Papa Stour.
A moderate southerly gale was blowing, with a rough and increasing sea, and it was snowing. The motor...
January (1)
JANUARY MEETING BARROW, LANCASHIRE, and MILLOM, CUMBERLAND.
At four in the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1942, the naval base asked the Barrow life-boat station to search for an aeroplane which had crashed north of...
Category: Services
H.M. Trawler Loch Hope
NOVEMBER 2ND. - HARTLEPOOL , DURHAM. An aeroplane was reported down in Tees Bay, and at 2.5 in the morning the motor life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 7) put out to search for her.
She found nothing, but as...
A Tug (2)
JANUARY 17TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
At 3.53 P.M. the coastguard reported a small tug disabled and drifting in the Wash. A fresh N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and the weather was described as ”arctic.” The motor life...
The Life-Boat Work on the Goodwin Sands
ON the night of the storm the coxswain of the life-boat entered the watch-house, clad in Ms black oilskin garments, and glittering with salt-water from top to too.
" There will be more work for us before long,...
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Life-Boat Launches on Service During the Months June, July and August, 1971
LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND IRBs 1st June 1971 to 31st August 1971: Launches 1,330, lives saved 787 THE ACTIVE FLEET (as at 31/8/71) 135 station life-boats 111 inshore rescue boats LIVES RESCUED 94,443 from the Institution'...
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Fundraising
It was around this time last year that the Oban lifeboat crew saved the life of an unconscious man who was trapped in icy waters between two fishing vessels in Oban harbour (see winter 2001/02 issue, p.18). The crew's pagers went off...
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