LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Past and Present
100 years ago It will doubtless be in the memory of many of our readers that the Report read at the last Annual Meeting contained the important information that Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., the Chairman of the Institution, on behalf of the...
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A Dinghy (13)
Hastings, Sussex - At 4.32 p.m. on ist August, 1967, the police informed the honorary secretary that three bathers were in difficulties off Fairlight Cove. The IRB was launched at 4.35 and proceeded to the position indicated where she found...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WHITBURN, DURHAM.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION forwarded to this important station, in September last, a new 32-feet 10-oared life-boat and transportingcarriage, in the place of the boat and carriage previously there, the old boat...
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Silver Medal Service at Cromer
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 109 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 67 LIVES RESCUED - 63,058 from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 26th, 1932 Silver Medal Service at Cromer.
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Marion
ISLE of ARRAN, N.B.—On the 13th July, at about 11.30 P.M., during a strongN.E. wind and moderate sea, the pilot smack Marion, while cruising between Lamlash and Ailsa Craig, had her jib carried away; she afterwards stranded on the Carlin...
Medal for Scottish Skipper
THE gallantry of the skipper of a fishing vessel, Mr. Ian Innes of Helmsdale, Sutherland, which resulted in the rescue of three other fishermen, has been recognized by the award of the Institution's bronze medal for...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st Oct. To the 31st Dec. 1878
ISLE OF WHITHORN.—On the 2nd Octo-ber, the smack Swallow was observed off: Borough Head dismasted, and in danger of being driven on the rocks. The Whithorn Life-boat Charlie Peek put off to her assistance, but before she could get near the...
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William Hill
On the following day the same Lifeboat went, in a heavy sea, to the assistance of the brig William Hill, of Dundalk, which had shown signals of distress while lying in the bay about two miles from the shore. It was found that the...
A Rubber Dinghy
Appledore, Devon.—Just before noon on the 12th of June, 1950, the Northam Burrows coastguard reported a rubber dinghy drifting to sea with two men aboard. At 12.5 the life-boat Violet Armstrong was launched in a slight sea with an easterly...
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