LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Registan
DOCTOR, AMBULANCE MEN AND PILOT TAKEN OUT St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 5.39 on the evening of the 20th May, 1963, Niton radio station informed the honorary secretary that a seaman on board the motor vessel Registan of London had been...
Gleaner
Lerwick, Shetlands. At 9.45 on the evening of the 4th of April, 1960, the assistant honorary secretary told the honorary secretary that he had heard the motor fishing vessel Gleaner of Fraserburgh wirelessing for help as she was ashore at...
Border Falcon
Penlee, Cornwall. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 12th December, 1961, the port medical officer informed the honorary secretary that a seventeen- year-old apprentice on board the tanker Border Falcon of Newcastle was ill and...
Pegasus
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 30th of December, 1956, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that the Dutch vessel Pegasus, of Groningen, was on fire 25 miles south-west of Portland Bill and that her deck cargo was...
La Libertine
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands - At 3.26 a.m. on 29th July, 1969, the coastguard informed the life-boat coxswain that the French yacht La Libertine, with five men and two girls aboard, had dragged her anchor and was driving ashore between...
OTHER IRB LAUNCHES
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on lages 120, 130, 134, the following launches on service were made during the months September, October and November, 1969, inclusive: Abersoch,...
Category: Services
Lifeguards in Ireland and Jersey
Summer is fast approaching and the RNLI’s lifeguards are dusting down their rescue tubes, ready for another season on the UK’s most popular beaches.
This year, they’ve crossed the Irish Sea and will be patrolling in...
Category: Articles
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Epsilon
A barque was observed ashore on the west part of the Cfunfleet; Sand, at about 2 P.M. on the 30th March, during a fresh S.W. wind, and with the aid of a telescope it was seen that she was flying signals of distress.
The...
Osprey
On the 25th November, at about 7.15 A.M., the Ramsgate Life-boat and steameragain proceeded out in reply to signal guns fired from the Gull Light-ship. A large barque was seen to be ashore on the N.E. part of the Goodwin Sands, to which the...