LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
TRAWLER TROUBLE
TYNEMOUTH | 30 MARCH
The skipper of a 28-tonne trawler radioed for help when its propeller fouled in fishing gear, leaving the three-man crew adrift 12 miles off Whitley Bay. Tynemouth’s Severn crew towed them to safety, arriving...
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Mozambique Mission
You haven't got a cat's chance in hell of achieving anything in those boats' said one local, smiling knowingly as he looked at the HNLI's collection of D class lifeboats...To add further concern, a boatman with 20 years'...
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Contents
Contents 0 0 ,82 Lifeboat Services 184 XL VIII LongService Awards 191 40J The naming Of the 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat RNLB Princess of Wales by HRH The Princess of Wales 192 Eleven Years On . . . a look at the Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable...
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Four Brothers
At 8.30 A.M.
on the 29th January it was reported to the Coxswain that a vessel was flying signals of distress about four miles N. W.
of Bull Bay. The Life-boat James Gullen was launched in a very heavy sea...
Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March. 15 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched on service 30 times but rescued no lives.
FIREMEN TAKEN TO BELGIAN TRAWLER Selsey, Sussex. At 8.20 on the morn- ing of 4th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary...
Category: Services
Flora
The Victoria, Life-boat put! off in a W.N.W. gale on the 5th De- : cember, and rendered important services to the schooner Flora, of Exeter, then in distress near Exmouth Bar..
Galway Medals. Presented By President Cosgrave
Presented by President Cosgrave.
THE awards made by the Institution for the gallant efforts to discover the survivors of the Welsh trawler Cardigan Castle, which struck the rocks and sank in Clifden Bay, Connemara, on the...
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Run Up to Christmas 2005 Photos
On Sunday 27 November, hundreds of runners, young and old, fit and not so fit, gathered i Moors Valley Country Park in Dorset to raise funds for the RNLI. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sufficiency of Life-Boats In Passenger Ships a Pecuniary Question
SINCE writing the preceding article we have been again shocked by the intelligence of another of those frightful accidents at sea, which we now as regularly look for in the newspapers of the day as we do for the murders, garotte robberies,...
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Cape Coast
Twenty rescued CAPE COAST, a 2,650 ton Panamanian cargo vessel, broadcast on Channel 16 VHP at 0327 on Wednesday January 10 that she was in distress and taking water in her engine room; she was 2.2 miles from Nab Tower on a bearing of...