LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Search for swimmer FOR WHITBY'S 1983 lifeboat day, Saturday August 6, the weather was fine and clear with little wind and calm water.
Just before 1500 the lifeboat crew were assembling aboard the 44ft Waveney relief...
Gifts from Crews
On the 17th May, 1928, the Ramsgate Motor Life-boat saved the schooner Isabella, of Barrow, which was in distress in a moderate northerly gale, and rescued her crew of four men. Out of the salvage money received, the Life-boat Crew have made...
Category: Donations
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On a bright day in June, two sunbathers on a rock ledge at Mawgan Forth, Cornwall, were blissfully unaware that the tide was coming in and that they would soon be in dangerAs part of their daily routine, Mawgan Porth RNLI lifeguards check...
Collisions at Sea
WE extract from the Nautical Magazine the following paper from the pen of Capt. K. B. MARTIN, Harbour Master, Ramsgate.
It contains some pertinent remarks on the subject of collisions at sea, and especially points to an...
Category: Articles
Winona and H.M. Trawler Commander Holbrook
NOVEMBER 10TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 5.20 A.M. the Great Yarmouth coastguard telephoned that rockets had been seen, and later it was learned that the British steamer Winona was aground five miles N.E. 1/2 E. from...
The Last Launch of the Hampshire Rose from Walmer (Above)
The last launch of The Hampshire Rose from Walmer (above). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Nestlea and Dereske (1)
NOVEMBER 1 8 - 2 0TH. - BALTIMORE, COURTMACSHERRY, AND BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. About 10.30 A.M. a wireless message, which had been picked up at Cork, was received at Baltimore that the steamer Nestlea, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had been attacked...
Minstrel Boy
Four saved from yacht aground in heavy sea and swell A service by the Walton and Frinton lifeboat to a yacht aground with four people on board has earned the coxswain a letter of thanks from the Institution's chairman. The other members...
A Sailing Boat
Two towed AT ABOUT 1600 on Wednesday December 6, 1978, Robert Gorman, a fisherman and ILB crew member at Aberystwyth, saw a capsized sailing boat and the college rescue boat about 400 yards off shore. Realising that they would need help he...
New Ways of Raising Money
Early last year the Kidderminster ladies' life-boat guild gave each member 5s.
and told them to increase it. In September it was reported that over £80 had been raised in this way.
The Little Ship...
Category: Donations