LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Skylark
DEC. 3RD. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 10.30 A.M. the coastguard reported that a boat a few hundred yards from the Shoreham gas works, on a lee shore, appeared to have hoisted a coat as a distress signal. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing...
The Baby of the Fleet 25 Years on By Heather Deane Deputy Public Relations Officer
TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND LAUNCHES—an average of 1,000 a year and the lives of nearly 11,000 men, women and children saved. This is the proud record of the 16ft (4.88m) D class inflatable lifeboat, preparing to celebrate her silver jubilee in...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
RAMSGATE.—On the 2nd January, 1894,was blowing S. by E., and there was a good deal of swell on the sea. The Life- boat Ellen and Eliza, was promptly launched and on reaching the spot found that the barque Agerden haying lost her reckoning in...
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Maria, of Dunedin
The ship Maria, of Dunedin, came ashore here during a fresh wind from the 8.E., on the 22nd Jan. An effort was made by the crew to get her off; but a gale springing up from the E., ac- companied by a heavy sea, placed their lives in great...
Life-Boat Transporting Carriage
LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway A, A, and of side or bilgeways B, B, in rear of the...
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Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED by THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway A, A, and of side or bilgeways B, B, in rear of the...
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Jean Horsley
Seaham, Durham.—At 3.42 on the afternoon of the 17th of August, 1954, the coastguard reported that the fish- ing boat Jean Horsley, which had a crew of five, had broken down off Crimdon, about eight miles south of Seaham. At four o'clock...
The Torpedo Boat Destroyer Success
During a severe S.E. gale on the 27th December the Torpedo-boat Destroyer Success ran ashore on the rocky coast at Kingsbarns, about six miles from St. Andrews. The vessel was steaming south, and in the darkness, without any shore lights to...
November
Launches 22. Lives rescued 7.
NOVEMBER 6TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
During the afternoon the motor fishing boat Dan O’Connell, of Arklow, with a crew of five, ran out of fuel as she was coming in, and...
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