LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NOVEMBER 13TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.

At 5.50 in the evening the coastguard reported a landing craft in need of help outside Wells harbour. A strong north-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea ; it was raining and visibility...

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APRIL 7TH. - FOWEY, CORNWALL.

Two R.A.F. men had been reported stranded on Chough Rock, near Looe, but the life-boat was recalled as the men had been saved.- Rewards, £4 7s. 6d..

REFLOATING A STRANDED STEAMER Caister, Norfolk.—At 12.30 in the afternoon of January llth, 1947, a steamer was seen to have stranded on the Caister Shoal, half a mile east by south of the life-boat station. She made distress...

Coxswain Patrick Murphy, of Newcastle, Co. Down, in Northern Ireland, has won the Institution's gold medal for superb seamanship and daring rescuing a steamer's crew in January. Just a year before he twice won the bronze medal in...

Storm search THE STATION HONORARY SECRETARY of Courtmacsherry Harbour lifeboat station was informed at 1428 on Saturday December 19, 1981, that a fishing boat had been seen to capsize and sink off Barry's Point. Maroons were fired and at...

EVERY PIPE, every cable, even the oilcan and the radio telephone instructions, all to scale, can be found in a beautiful and meticulous model of Cromer's 48ft 6in Oakley lifeboat which was presented to the Institution last December....