LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Launches 28 Lives rescued None

NOVEMBER 1ST. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.

At 7.21 in the evening, the Wyke Regis coastguard reported a vessel aground on Shambles Bank. She was the Swedish tanker Ariston, of...

Lifeboat Services from page 191 he would ground and he was advised to anchor.

A quarter of an hour later Pass of Dirriemore had dropped her anchor some seven miles south west of Hartland, and it held. By 0300 the wind had...

Printing deadlines mean that I have to write my annual message in mid-October - a convenient time on this occasion because I have just returned from two visits which, in their separate ways, confirmed that the RNLI is buoyant and in good...

DAVID WEBB, the Bournemouth Cherries football team player/coach and former centre-half for Orient, Southampton, Chelsea, Queens Park Rangers, Leicester and Derby football clubs, drew the RNLI's tenth national lottery at Poole HQ on...

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AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...

Dutch dredger THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Troon lifeboat station was told by Clyde Coastguard at 1345 on Friday September 12, 1980, that the Dutch dredger Holland I working off Irvine Harbour was breaking her moorings in severe weather...

WHILST we are doing all in our power to guard our coasts with life-boats ready to save life in the event of a vessel being stranded on our shores, we must not lose sight of the fact that the greatest loss of life among our own countrymen,...