LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tractor transfer
A lone fisherman made a mayday call on 3 December 2008 after catching his hand in his boat’s winch 5 miles off the Kent coast. When the Dungeness lifeboat, the Mersey class Pride and Spirit, arrived, he had freed himself but had serious arm...
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Serendipitous Sighting
Three sailors whose flares were seen off the coast of Pembrokeshire on 5 September were very glad that vigilant onlookers called the Coastguard.
Their boat had capsized, and Fishguard’s inshore lifeboat, battling force 5–6...
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Fishermen saved off Donegal
LOUGH SWILLY | 8 SEPTEMBER
Lough Swilly lifeboat crew rescued six fishermen and their sinking boat off the Donegal coast. The inshore and all-weather lifeboats launched at 3.15am. They found all six...
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Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
September Meeting.
St. Helier, Jersey. — On the 17th May the sailing boat Seafarer had put out with three people on board. On the following day, as she had not returned, it was decided to make a search. Mr. J. Langlois lent...
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Above and beyond
The RNLI’s new Chairman, Admiral The Lord Boyce, is well aware of the sea’s dangers, as he explains to Rory Stamp
Like many of the RNLI’s senior figures, Mike Boyce has inspected several lifeboats at close quarters....
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'The scariest situation I've ever been in'
As the evening approached at Aberavon Beach on the south Wales coast, the RNLI lifeguard team were packing up their kit – but their work was not over for the day …
Sun and sand had attracted...
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Surfboards
Teamwork saves three surfers Thanks on Vellum awarded to Newquay helmsman A;ombined lifeboat and helicopter rescue in Force 8 winds saved the lives of three surfers in January - including a thirteen year old girl who was suffering from...
The "Life-Boat Stores Unlimited."
IN 1922 we published a letter from a gentleman on the Gold Coast asking for the Institution's catalogue and samples, as we had been recommended to him as a firm " for goods and provisions." Our inability to supply a catalogue...
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Marjory Gaw
PARACHUTE FLARES SHOW YACHT IN DANGER Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 9.5 on the evening of the 2nd September, 1962, the honorary secretary received messages from the coast life-saving service and the civic guards that rockets and flares had...