LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Big sick, little sick
The lifeboat volunteer, a teacher himself, wasn’t happy: ‘Nothing makes me more cross than giving up my time and having to suffer bad teaching. Now we’re to be guinea pigs for some new first aid training …’
In 2007, John...
Category: Articles
Hertford and District Branch
Support the RNLI: A red London bus, Routemaster RM5, was lent to the Hertford and district branch as an entry in the Hertford Carnival.
The bus, which is about 25 years old, is the oldest in regular service (route number 29... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Breeches buoy rescue TWO PEOPLE IN DANGER, stranded on a rock at the mouth of the River Dee, were reported to the deputy launching authority of Kirkcudbright lifeboat station by Ardrossan Coastguard at 1321 on Sunday, May 16. The weather was...
Melfort
Ketch founders RAMSEY COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Port St Mary lifeboat station at 0846 on Sunday May 17, 1981. that a yacht was aground at Derby Haven, east of Castletown; she was on the seaward side of the breakwater and...
Bow Wow Wow
Poppy the Springer Spaniel had a lucky escape on Valentine’s Day after chasing a seagull and falling 90m down a cliff into the sea.
Amazingly, she survived and managed to swim back to huddle at the cliff base. Newhaven’s...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
J LIFEBOAT CREW INJURED AS MIZZEN MAST FALLS Six survivors snatched from yacht in Force 9 gale and heavy seas A service to a 50ft yacht by St Peter Port's Arun class lifeboat Sir William Arnold in atrocious weather conditions resulted in...
Category: Services
Premuda (1)
JANUARY 16TH. - MARGATE, RAMSGATE.
AND WALMER. KENT. At 9.30 P.M. a message was received at Margate from the Margate coastguard that an Italian steamer was sinking close to the North Goodwin Light-vessel. A strong N.E. wind...
Teymar (4)
Eleven lifeboats in biggest ever Cardigan Bay searchCrew from nine lifeboat stations were united in a search for a missing power boat at Cardigan Bay. The Coastguard coordinated an extensive search involving 11 lifeboats, a rescue helicopter...
Teymar (5)
Eleven lifeboats in biggest ever Cardigan Bay searchCrew from nine lifeboat stations were united in a search for a missing power boat at Cardigan Bay. The Coastguard coordinated an extensive search involving 11 lifeboats, a rescue helicopter...
Penarth: Marathon Effort
Last year, Penarth trainee Crew Member Simon Marchant completed more than 40 marathons in Wales
over 41 days, raising a fantastic £779 for the RNLI. Simon set off with a goal of running an average of 26.2 miles a day (the...
Category: Articles