LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Peep Into the Past
A fascinating glimpse of the Lifeboat archives nto the pasL 100 years ago The spring 1906 edition of the then Life-boat Journal reported there was a large demand for the barometers that the RNLI offered to professional mariners at a reduced...
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A Pleasure Boat
Torbay, Devon. — 7th August. A fishing party in a pleasure boat had signalled that they were in distress, but a tug went to their help; flares had also been seen off the Orestone Rock, but nothing was found.—Rewards, £9 13s..
Suffolk Firm Building Faster Boats for the Rnli
When in the mid-1960s the RNLI decided to have six fast steel lifeboats to a 44-foot design developed by the United States Coast Guard, the Lowestoft shipyard was chosen to build them—and two of the six went to East Anglian stations, the...
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Yla Section
THE Y.L.A., with a growing membership of 7,000, continues to recruit members and with the yachting season in full swing it is hoped that members will do their utmost to recruit yet more names to the books.
By joining the...
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Net results
Harvesting the fruit of the sea has been a way of life since the first hunter–gatherers left their footprints in the muds of time – and it’s close to the heart of the RNLI too
The earliest of...
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Arethusa, of Blyth
On the 6th Januaty the brig Arefhuaa, of Myth, wfcnt ashore on the Gross Sand, near Grest Yarmouth. The Caister life-boat was immediately launched, and proceeded, under sail, to the rescue of her Crew, eight in number, whom she suc- ceeded...
William, of Wexford
WEXFORD.—At noon, on the 8th March, the sloop William, of Wexford, was wrecked on the north bar during a westerly gale. On observing her signals of distress, the Ethel Eveleen No. 1 Life-boat proceeded to her assistance, and succeeded in...
Aldina, of London
On the 14th December the schooner Adina, of London, was totally wrecked during a strong gale from the S.W. and heavy sea, near the East Holm Buoy, on the Gorton Sand, off Lowestoft.
The Lcetitia life-boat at the latter...
A Hundred Years Ago
THE brig Mountaineer was wrecked on Walmer Beach, on the 24th November, in a heavy gale from the eastward, when the crew, consisting of thirteen men and boys, with three Deal boatmen (the pilot, one Deal boatman, and two of the crew having...
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Ann Mitchell
On the 30th January, 1860, the ship Ann Mitchell ran ashore on the Arklow bank. The Arklow life-boat proceeded to her, and found the Bristol steamer Suly lying near her, but unable to approach sufficiently near to take off her crew, the sea...