LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
1939
funnel (or the exhausts, mast only for signalling and the wireless aerial, and two 40 h.p. Diesel engines. Stationed at Gorleston. - View image in PDF
Cost, £9,000.. - View image in PDF
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The Dredger Hoverinsham II
LIFE-RAFT RESCUE At 8.50 a.m. on 16th January, 1971, the honorary secretary at Beaumaris, Anglesey, learnt that a distress signal had been sighted from the dredger Hoverinsham II of Hull a quarter of a mile below Penmon lookout.
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The RNLI and me: Alexander McCall Smith
When bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith isn’t penning adventures set in Scotland and Botswana, he plots his own dramatic course on the water …
You published five books in 2015 alone – how do you manage to be so...
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Above: the New 17Ft 6In C Class Inflatable
Above: The new 17ft 6in C class inflatable lifeboat at Red Bay, Co Antrim, is launched from her carriage. In the summer the station is kept busy with many holidaymakers attracted to this impressive part of the coast. The Mull of Kintyre on... - View image in PDF
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The Life-Boat Service In 1950
THERE were 603 launches of life-boats to the rescue in 1950, only 36 below the record number in 1949—and life-boats rescued 381 lives. Ninety-one lives were rescued by shore-boats, for which the rescuers were rewarded by the Institution,...
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The Worthing Boat-House
THE Worthing station was closed in 1930 when a motor life-boat was sta- tioned at Shoreham Harbour. It had then been open seventy-eight years, and its boats had rescued fifty-eight lives. The boat-house, however, re- mained, and in it the...
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Leonidas
THE INCIDENTS which led to the launching of Angle lifeboat, the 46' 9" Watson Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth oj Leeds, on Monday, December 6, 1976, built up over several days.
On Saturday, December 4, the Greek...
The Motor Yawl Ivy Lass
Walmer, Kent. At 7.52 on the evening of the 8th of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor yawl Ivy Lass of Maldon was secured alongside the East Goodwin lightvessel, as she had run short of petrol....
The Old Salcombe Life-Boat Sarah Ann Holden
Salcombe, Devon.-—The motor lifeboat Alfred and Clara Heath was launched at 9.45 P.M. on the 8th August in response to flares reported by Bolt Head coastguard four miles west of Bolt. A light N.W. breeze was blowing, and the sea was smooth....
The S.S. Sveti-Duze, of Susak
Ramsgate, Kent.—25th April. The s.s. Sveti-Duze, of Susak, Yugoslavia, had collided with another steamer off the East Goodwin Sands, but both steamers were able to go on their way.
—Rewards, £5 8s..