LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Snaefell
FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.—At 8 P.M. on the 4th February the Life-boat Sob Newbon was launched, intelligence having been received from the coastguard that a vessel was aground on the Black Rock. A moderate wind was blowing from E.N.E., and there...
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CUT OFF BY THE TIDE Ramsgate, Kent.—At 12.25 in the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1947, the police reported that two men had been cut off by the rising tide on a rock off the western undercliff. The motor life-boat Prudential...
Virgen de la Guia
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 11.20 on the night of the 26th of January, 1959, a message was received from the trawler agents at Cahirciveen that a Spanish trawler was sinking twenty-five miles south-west of Skelligs Rock. Another vessel was...
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SICK MAN FROM LIGHTHOUSE LANDED Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 15th June, 1963, the Commissioners of Irish Lights telephoned the honorary secretary to say that a keeper on Skelligs Rock fighthouse was very ill and to...
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YOUTH CLUNG TO ROCK Ilfracombe, Devon. At 12.5 a.m. on 2nd August, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that one of two youths who had been at Woody bay, Lynton, had returned to raise the alarm that the other was missing. At...
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Porthcawl, Glamorganshire - At 4.20 p.m. on ist May, 1966, the crew of the IRB heard a police radio message that four youths were stranded on a rock. The IRB was launched at 4.21 in a light southerly wind and a moderate ground sea. It was...
Tenby Lifeboat House from Page 47
from page 47 parts of the old rotten timber beams was then begun.
Access bridge At the same time the old access bridge was removed, so that for a short time Tenby lifeboat house became an island. The new access bridge spans...
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Reviews
The Missions to Seamen.
" At the Sign of the Fly ing Angel." By G. A. Gollock. (Longmans, Green & Co. 5s. net.) IT was 107 years ago that Sir William Hillary, in his Life-boat Appeal, wrote of our seamen that...
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A Radio Controlled Life-Boat
During the 'open day' arranged by the Port of Liverpool branch in aid of the R.N.L.I., an interesting demonstration was given in which a model life-boat aided a model trawler on the boating lake at Hoylake.
The...
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Yorkshire Hosts:
Yorkshire hosts: Whitby's 44ft Waveney class escorts two Scottish lifeboats out of Whitby harbour on their journey north. The two visitors are the new 47ft Tyne class, Lord Saltoun, bound for Longhope and the 54ft Arun, City of Bradford... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs