LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
County of Cork
MOELFEE, ANGLESEA.—About 10 o'clock on the morning of the 2nd March, while a strong breeze was blowing from S.E. accompanied by a rough sea, signals of distress were shown by the schooner County of Cork, of Amlwch, bound from Liverpool...
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Tyne's inflatable used to transfer sick woman through surf to lifeboat Commodore George Cooper, the RNLI's Chief of Operations, has written to congratulate Coxswain/mechanic Robert Erskine and his crew for 'a fine team effort...
Jo-Anne
Set against a buoy HM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, lifeboat station at 2251 on Friday, July 16, that cries for help heard coming from the vicinity of Sconce Buoy, near Fort Victoria, had been...
Shoreline
AN ALL-TIME RECORD was chalked up in January by Shoreline at the London Boat Show RNLI stand. During the 11 days of the show 907 new members signed on: 25 life governors, 80 governors, 306 family members and 496 ordinary full members. This...
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Dutch Life-Boat Losses
Ix the gales of last November, and again in January of this year, the Dutch Life-boat Service did magnificent work, but, like our own Service, it suffered heavy loss.
The same terrible gales which struck our own coasts...
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Life-Boat Societies Abroad
The Royal National Life-boat Institution agreed to a request made at the International Life-boat Conference that it should act as a distributing centre for information which may be of general interest to all Life-boat Societies. The...
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Josephine II
Hythe, Dover, and Folkestone, Kent.— On the night of the 13th-14th December the Hythe and Dover motor life-boats and a Folkestone fishing boat went out to the rescue of the crew of three of the motor fishing boat Josephine II, of...
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Carriad
Night escort ANGLE LIFEBOAT, THE 46ft 9in WATSON CLASS, Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds, launched on service at2148 on the evening of Saturday May 17, 1986, after a yacht had been reported to be suffering engine problems in gale...
Ema
Penlee, Cornwall. At 10 a.m. on nth November, 1965, the St. Just coastguard told the coxswain that a ship had reported seeing mattresses in the sea five miles south-east of Tater Du lighthouse. The mattresses were possibly from the missing...