APRIL 25TH. - PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN. During the afternoon a strong N.E. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. Three fishing boats were out and at 5 P.M. the motor life-boat Ethel Day Cardwell was launched to their help. Two of the boats...
CATASTROPHE comes quickly at sea. On any dark stormy night a doctor's bed- side telephone may ring and the urgent voice of a coastguard may ask for immediate medical assistance to a ship several miles from shore. If he agrees, and the...
Category: Articles
Mermaid’s purses, pelican feet, hag stones – would you recognise these on the beach? Beachcomber and RNLI volunteering champion Debbie Corke gives us her tips for coastal finds
This summer, you’ll probably be spending some...
Category: Articles
PORT ISAAC, CORNWALL.—On the 26th March, at about 1 P.M., the schooner British Queen, of Wexford, bound from that port to Porthcawl in ballast, was observed to be in distress. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the N.N.W., and there was...
Thought you might be interested in this one for the next issue of the Lifeboat magazine.
We've heard of military cutbacks but this takes the biscuit. A kite assisted rescue helicopter.
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Category: Photographs
Sails blown out RED FLARES SIGHTED in the vicinity of Les Hanois Lighthouse were reported to the honorary secretary of St Peter Port lifeboat station at 2215 on Friday, November 11, 1977. A quarter of an hour later the 52ft Arun lifeboat Sir...
Boarding boat rescue from saltings REQUESTING THE LAUNCHING of Calshot lifeboat at 2207 on Thursday, January 29, HM Coastguard told the honorary secretary that at 2054 a red flare had been reported in Ashlett Creek and. in view of the very...
ABERSOCH, CAERNARVONSHIRE. — While the wind was blowing, with the force of a whole gale to a storm, from W.N.W. to N.W., with terrific squalls and a very heavy sea, on the 12th Jan. last, signals of distress were exhibited by the schooner...
Category: Services
THE Institution has received from the Archbishop of Wales a personal letter commending the work of the Institu- tion to the clergy and members of the Church in Wales. It is dated 23rd January, 1939: " I hope that both the clergy and the...
Category: Correspondence
Chairman of the Bradford Branch, and also of his work as Chairman of the Bradford Life-boat Bazaar, has been elected a Vice- President of the Institution.
The following awards have also been made :—• To the Rev. T. N....
Category: Awards