LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wave Dancer
Tyne's inflatable used to reach stranded fishing boat survivors A service to a 17ft fishing vessel and her crew of two in hazardous conditions, among rocks and in rough seas, has earned two men from Wick's lifeboat station the Thanks...
Reading the sea
From surfers to fishermen to lifeboat coxswains, people who rely on the sea need to be expert at understanding what it’s doing. But how well do you know your tides, waves and currents?
The sea is changing all the time....
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The Storeyard's Children's Party
Fos the third year the Staff at the Institution's Storeyard at Poplar, with the help of the Staff at Headquarters, gave a Christmas Tea and Entertain- ment to children living in the neigh- bourhood of the Storeyard. The party was given...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
HENDON, SUNDERLAND.—As the re- sult of a shipwreck, with loss of life, at Ryhope Point, Sunderland, the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has, on the strong representation of the Local Committee, formed a Life-boat station at Hendon Beach...
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A Vessel
Torhay, Devon.—27th October, 1937.
A vessel had been reported in difficulties off the Thatcher Rock, but nothing could be found. She must have gone on her way.—Rewards, £6 7s. 6d..
A Cargo Boat
JULY 20TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK.
Information had been received that a cargo boat had been torpedoed, but though the life-boat searched for a long time in the neighbourhood of the Fastnet Rock she found nothing. - Rewards,...
A Whitley Bombing Aeroplane
OCTOBER 30TH. - ST. MARY’S, SCILLY ISLES. A Whitley bombing aeroplane had been reported down 40 miles S.W. of Bishop Rock, but the life-boat returned, after going over thirty miles, as it was learned that motor launches had searched the area...
A Steamer (8)
JUNE 21ST. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
A steamer, damaged by striking a rock or wreckage, had been beached, but she did not need the help of the life-boat.- Rewards, £31 12s. 6d.
A German Submarine
DECEMBER 18TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
A German submarine had struck the Wolf Rock and sunk. Naval vessels also sent to the rescue and picked up a number of survivors. but none was rescued by the lifeboat.
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Ketty et Michou
FRENCH TRAWLER AIDED St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. A doctor rang the coxswain at 10 p.m. on 6th October, 1963, stating that he had heard from the Penzance Port Medical Authority that a French trawler, Ketty et Michou, was steaming at full...