LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford, and Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 7.34 on the evening of the llth of May, 1958, the Superintendent of the Irish Coast Life-Saving Service passed on to the acting honorary secretary at Rosslare Harbour a message...

Dial 999 for fire, police, ambulance, life-boat.

Those words on the cover of the Jersey telephone directory, in large type, caught my eye soon after I landed on the island. They sum up very neatly the efficient way in which...

Stranded under cliffs BRIXHAM COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Torbay lifeboat station at 1431 on Monday, August 23, 1976, that survivors from a wrecked speedboat were stranded on a beach at Forest Cove under overhanging...

HOW WOULD YOU react when confronted with three seven-year-old boys who had seen, say, a model you had built 15 years ago, and who wanted to build their own? Would you tell them that, because of inflation, it would cost three times as much...

Man unconscious A STRONG south-westerly breeze, force 6, was blowing on the afternoon of Wednesday July 17, 1985, when New Quay's (Dyfed) 37ft Oakley class lifeboat, Birds Eye, launched after the coastguard had reported a fishing vessel...

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TANKS For almost half a century Wrights have specialised in the fabrication of tanks from 5 to 50,000 gallons in stainless steel, aluminium, or mild steel, either one-otf or on a...

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Ferry fire puts all emergency services on alert at Harwich Harwich, Walton andFrinton and Aldeburgh East and South East Divisions Four lifeboats, three helicopters, three tugs and a harbour launch were despatched to the passenger and cargo...