LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
ILFRACOMBE.—On the 27th May, 1894, the coastguard reported to the coxswain of the Life-boat that a dismasted vessel was lying off Heale Bay, nearly half a mile from the point. A moderate breeze was blowing from N.N.W., the weather was...
Category: Services
An Admiralty Trawler (1)
DECEMBER 5TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON , NORFOLK. A n Admiralty trawler had been in collision, but she could not be found and she got in without help. - Rewards, £13 11s. 6d.
Sea Beat (Continued from Page 270)
(continued from page 270) away and, on the first attempt to launch through the heavy surf, the boat was thrown back broadside on to the beach.
With perseverance, however, the crew managed to get through the surf and then...
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Vellum for Fowey Mechanic
THE thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to Assistant Mechanic James Turpin of Fowey, Cornwall, who swam a hundred yards through broken water from the Fowey life-boat to the help of a young woman and an auxiliary...
Category: Awards
One Man Rescued from Dutch Lighter
Ax 9.14 on the evening of the 7th of December, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Torbay, Devon, life-boat station, Mr. F. W. H. Park, was informed by the coastguard at Berry Head that the Dutch tug Cycloop, which was shelter- ing in Torbay...
Category: Services
A Small Boat (5)
JULY 30TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 12.30 in the afternoon a report was received from a man at Rhos-on- Sea that a small boat was being carried out to sea off Colwyn Bay. The motor life-boat Thomas and Annie Wade...
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Life-Boat Charts for Yacht Clubs
The Institution will be glad to supply free to any yacht club a copy of the chart of life-boat stations round the British Isles which appears in the annual report. The chart is varnish- ed arid can be sent mounted on cardboard and holed and...
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Progress (1)
Whitby, and Scarborough, Yorkshire.— On the morning of the 23rd of Novem- ber, 1955, the Whitby fishing fleet were still at sea in worsening weather, and it was thought advisable that a life-boat should stand by the harbour bar to escort...
Rnli News
Reasons to celebrate The opening of Ramsey's new hoathouse in a ceremony on 6 April was much welcomed by all.
The new boathouse. situated at the north end of the south promenade, has been specially designed to house the...
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