LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Contributions from Shipping Companies
As announced in the February issue of The Lifeboat, we propose to publish lists of the gifts received from shipping companies in gratitude for services rendered to their vessels by Life-boats.
To the list published in the...
Category: Donations
Flood alert
Volunteers from the RNLI’s Flood Rescue Team (FRT) evacuated people from their flooded homes in St Asaph, North Wales at the end of November. Crew members from lifeboat stations at Beaumaris, Conwy, Moelfre and Rhyl joined forces with...
Category: Articles
Doggy paddle
19 July: Blackpool, Lancashire When a dog got into difficulty near Blackpool’s North Pier, the lifeboat crew launched in their D class and brought the pet to safety, much to the gratitude of its owner. As well as...
Category: Articles
Lorry in limbo
2 October: Hartlepool When a scrap metal lorry rolled forward and was left precariously hanging metres above the waters of Irvine's Quay, Hartlepool Harbour Police asked the RNLI to stand by during the rescue...
Category: Articles
Two slips in 6 hours
KYLE OF LOCHALSH | 13 SEPTEMBER
A canoeist endured a night alone in a cave by Loch Carron after slipping and injuring himself. In the morning he crawled out to get reception on his mobile and called...
Category: Articles
Svarton
JANUARY 3RD. - FRASERBURGH ABERDEENSHIRE. At 9.58 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that vessel had been mined ten miles N.E. from Kinnaird Head. A N.W. wind was blowing, with a very heavy ground swell. At 10.5 A.M the motor...
A Piledriver
JULY 5TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 7.20 P .M. the coastguard reported two men were in danger on a-piledriver at Milford-on-Sea. A moderatesqually S.S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough breaking sea. The motor life-boat S.G.E. was...
Excel
KINGSDOWNE.—The coxswain of the Life-boat, while on the beach, on the morning of the 9th April, saw a schooner run on the South Sand Head of the Goodwin Sands. He at once summoned the crew of the Life-boat Charles Hargrave, and at 6.15 the...
Safe Return
SEPTEMBER 29TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK. At 8.30 P . M . the owner of the Skibbereen motor fishing boat Safe Return reported that his boat, with a crew of three, was five hours overdue, and the motor lifeboat Shamrock was launched at 9.5 P.M....
Rebecca and Mary
PORTHDINLLAEN.—At daybreak on the 30th Jan. the schooner Rebecca and Mary, of Carnarvon, was observed riding at anchor in a dangerous position off the Lifeboat Station, with a signal of distress flying. It was blowing a hard gale from N.N.W....