LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Week's Good Cause By Coxswain Derek Scott Bem
ON SUNDAY AUGUST 12 Derek Scott, BEM, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat, made an appeal on behalf of the RNLI on BBC Radio 4. The text of the appeal, in response to which more than £11,200 has already been received, is given below:...
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Insight
INSIGHT The RnlI’s Vision is to be recognised as the most effective, innovative and dependable lifeboat and lifeguard service.
Here are just a handful of incidents from around the UK and RoI to give an insight into the...
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Stretched to breaking point
In near gale force winds, a large crabbing boat lost engine power and was drifting close to an offshore gas rig. Unable to anchor, due to underwater pipelines, she needed a tow to safety
Just...
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Passages of Life-Boats In the Gales. Port Patrick, Troon, and Moelfre
THREE new Motor Life-boats which left the building yard at Cowes for their Stations during the gales—the 40-feet Watson Life-boats for Port Patrick (Wigtownshire), Troon (Ayrshire) and Moelfre (Anglesey)—were subjected to as severe a test as...
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A Fine Service at Holyhead
ON the evening of the 7th October, 1938, a small coaster was reported by the coastguard watchman at Rhosneigir to be making distress signals between Rhosneigir and Porthdinllaen. The Porthdinllaen and Holyhead life-boat stations were...
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The Flamborough Motor Fishing Coble Pioneer
NOVEMBER 12TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 5.30 at night it was reported that the Flamborough motor fishing coble Pioneer, which had been due back at three o’clock, had not returned.
A strong...
A Pilot Launch, a Port Control Launch and Dereske
DECEMBER 12TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. During the evening a strong southerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and a pilot launch and a port control launch, both of Cork, were swamped and sunk in Cork Harbour when on their way to put...
High Seas
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
North Berwick-Scotland Division Perched on the promentary at the very end of the Firth of Forth (seen stretching away in to the distance) North Berwick can be a rough place...
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MAYDAY AT THE HARBOUR MOUTH
The lives of six fishermen are in danger. Their fishing boat is drifting dangerously close to shore. Powerless against the gale-force winds and sea swell, they need help – fast
It’s the end of a blustery October day in...
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Feature Tamar Tales
As work on the Tamar class lifeboat design gathers pace, Neil Chaplin, RNLI principal naval architect, gives the Lifeboat a look behind the scenes. We also follow the introduction of a radical new electronics system that could herald a step...
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