LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ocea (2)
Steering failure LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of New Brighton lifeboat station at 1400 on Sunday August 29, 1982, that the yacht Ocea was acting in an erratic manner and appeared to be in difficulties just north of...
Lenie (1)
TOWED OFF ROCKS Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.
At 5.5 a.m. on i8th March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a Dutch motor vessel was ashore eight miles south-west of Porthdinllaen Point. There was a...
Doy
Newhaven, Sussex. At 11.25 on the night of the 3rd September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was ashore east of the river Cuckmere. At 11.55 the life- boat Kathleen Mary was launched in a gentle...
Dot
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 2.52 on the afternoon of the 27th of August, 1957, the coastguard reported that a local fishing boat was flying a distress signal about two miles south-east of the harbour. The life-boat Greater London (Civil Service...
None (1)
Brighton and Shoreham lifeboat crews joined forces to assist fire officers during a fire that gutted the south end of Brighton's West Pier on 28 March 2003 The fire was raging out of control on the pier, with no way for fire teams to...
Rescue from French Yacht
ACTING Coxswain Eric Grandin of St. Helier, Jersey, has been accorded the Institution's thanks inscribed on vellum for the rescue of four people from the French yacht Kraken which went aground on 26th March, 1967. The St. Helier honorary...
Category: Services
'Big Sister' Is World Leader
BY the end of the 1960s it was obvious that a larger lifeboat, which could operate at night was needed. After testing various rigid hull boats, the RNLI chose one pioneered by Rear Admiral Desmond Hoare at Atlantic College, South Wales. The...
Category: Articles
Nuri (7) and Tumpa (8) on their way home from school in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
Category: Photographs
Gika
Search and rescue A YACHT IN DISTRESS somewhere to the south west of South Stack Light was reported to the honorary secretary of Holyhead lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 0908 on Sunday September 4, 1977; her exact position was not known...
How the Women Launched the Life-Boat. (From the Toilers of the Deep.)
THE little cliff-side village In sleepy stillness lay, When the fishers' boats, at daybreak, Set sail from Bunswick Bay.
" God keep our sons and husbands, And bring them safely home I " Was the prayer that...
Category: Poetry