LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pulaid Marine Systems
The instant guide to safety at sea.
Legislation or not in 1992, as every serious boat user knows, safety at sea is vital - and when the unexpected happens, there's often little time to consider the correct response.<...
Category: Advertisement
Albion, of Rostock
'Again, o>n the 19th November, this valu- able Life-boat did good service when she was launched during a gale from S.S.W., to the barque Albion, of Eostock, which had gone ashore at Kirkton Head, and was happily the means of rescuing...
Zircon (1)
On the bar TWO RED FLARES sighted on the south side of Portmadoc Estuary, near and inside the bar, were reported to the honorary secretary of Pwllheli lifeboat station by Coastguard Porthdinllaen at 0035 on Thursday, September 1. The wind...
The Norwegian Fish Carrier Arnoytrans
Longhope Coxswain Kevin Kirkpatrick and Thurso Second Coxswain Duncan Munro received the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum for two separate services on the same stormy day (mentioned in the winter 2004/05 issue of the Lifeboat)....
Landlubber In the Life-Boat
The following article appeared in the Norwich Mercury of llth April, 1968, and is repro- duced by courtesy of the Editor Who, reading this, has not at some time or other rushed down to the beach at the sound of the maroons calling out the...
Category: Articles
Leicester City
On the 22nd of March, 1953, the Stromness and Thurso life-boats both went to the help of the trawler Leicester City, of Grimsby, when she went aground three and a half miles south- west of Stromness. Fourteen men were picked up alive, but...
‘SHE WENT QUICK’
With a trawler in trouble off a remote archipelago in Shetland, Lerwick lifeboat crew would need to pull on insider knowledge and all their experience if they were to get the five fishermen to safety
Coxswain Alan Tarby’s...
Category: Articles
Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, February llth, 1932.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— Mrs. Helen Davis, 100 £1 Preference shares in the Lady Workers'...
Category: Committee
Up close and very personal
The Lifeguard ‘It was high tide on the afternoon of 28 June and I had just come on duty at Trebarwith Strand, north Cornwall. The surf was rough and we were flying the red flag. I chatted with a couple of anglers, a dad and his stepson on...
Category: Articles
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Bluebird II
Humber, Yorkshire - At 4.8 a.m.
on 16th February, 1970, the coastguard reported that red flares hadbeen sighted in the Haile Sand Fort area. The life-boat City of Bradford HI was launched at 4.21 in a fresh north westerly...