LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
People and Places
Mechanics down tools to pick winners Lifeboatmen attending a five-day mechanical and engineering course in Poole took time out of their busy schedule to draw the winning tickets for the Autumn lifeboat lottery in...
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L'Espoir and Innocence
Arun saves yacht and skipper after long tow in severe weatherThe RNLI's chief of operations has written to thank the crews of both the Falmouth and Lizard lifeboats following a service involving both lifeboats on 16 February...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 7th January, 1886.
EDWARD BIRKBECK, Esq., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting. Also read those of the Finance and Correspondence and Wreck and...
Category: Committee
Faithful and Twilight Star
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
Around noon on the 12th of May, 1960, considerable anxiety was felt for two local fishing vessels which were overdue. At 12.30 the life-boat Grace Darling was launched two hours after...
Cruser and Raven
About half-past four on the 7th July two small yawl-rigged yachts, the Cruiser and Raven, were observed by Holy Island fishermen to be running south before the wind off Berwick.
About 7 P.M. it was seen that these vessels...
Pilot Me and Success
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 10 A.M.
on the 18th April, 1938, the motor fishing boats Pilot Me and Success put to sea to haul their crab pots. Theweather was showery, and the sea strong. On the flood tide the sea grew worse...
Auk
SEPTEMBER 8TH- PORT ASKAIG , ARGYLLSHIRE. At 8.10 A.M. a message was received from the Kilchoman coastguard that a vessel was ashore on Chuirn Island, Ardmore Point, Islay. The weather was thick, with a slight N.W. wind and a calm sea. At...
Perseverence and Lugger
Two yachts in force 10 WHEN, at 2327 on September 20, 1973, the honorary secretary of Shoreham, Sussex, was told by the Coastguard that a yacht was in distress 20 miles south of Shoreham, the maroons were fired and Dorothy and Philip...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 17th June, 1909.
Colonel FitzRoY CLAYTON, V.P., in the Chair.
Reported that the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Institution, with the Secre- tary and the Chief Inspector, had visited...
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The Fund Raisers
Concerted efforts Worcester guild has a particular talent for turning musical notes into pound notes. In May 1984 a concert given by Scottish baritone, Peter Morrison, in conjunction with the Hereford Police Choir, raised £362.25, while...
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