LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tijl Uilenspiegel (3)
Six lifeboats in search for missing Belgian trawler The new Tyne class lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, had a testing time during her first service, in a search for a missing Belgian trawler which lasted for 11 hours in Force 7 winds and...
Notes of the Quarter
THE RNLI INQUIRY into the capsizes of Barra Island and Islay lifeboats off the west coast of Scotland last November, reported on page 6, has concluded that both lifeboats were overwhelmed by heavy breaking seas in violent storm conditions...
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Surfboards
Surfers saved in lightning rescue dashAs senior helmsman Aubrey Diggle was leaving the boathouse on the morning of 23 February 2002, a surfer reported that two of his colleagues were being swept away. Looking out to sea, Aubrey instantly...
Shoreline and Storm Force
Membership survey LAST YEAR questionnaires were sent to 2,000 Shoreline members in a survey which aimed to find out more about membership to help future recruiting.
Over 1,000 completed forms were returned and analysed by...
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Foreign Governments and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
IN two instances recently the indomitable courage of the British Life-boatman has been recognised and suitably rewarded by governments of the respective countries to which the distressed vessels belonged.
The first case...
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Elise
The No. 2 Life- boat Civil Service No. 1, was launched at 8.30 P.M. on 3rd December during a whole southerly gale to the assistance of the fishing smack Elsie, of Ramsgate, which had stranded on the Long Nose Rock. When the Life-boat got...
The S.S. Rannoch
CLOUGHEY, Co. DOWN.—The Coastguard watchman haying reported a steamer on the North Rock on the 7th April, 1897, the Life-boat Faith was launched at 5.30 A.M., and prooeeding to the vessel fonnd her to be the s.s. Rannoch, of and from Glasgow...
Ross Corr
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 1.10 early on the morning of the 8th of June, 1955, a man at Portmagee telephoned that the trawler Ross Corr, of Dublin, had been due at Portmagee at eight o'clock the night before, but had not...
Gareloch
On the even- ing of the 18th August the coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore five hundred yards S.E. of the Billow Ness look-out hut. She was the steam trawler Gareloch, of Aberdeen, bound home from Methil after coaling, and was...
Strathelliot (1)
Stromness, Orkneys.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 28th of October, 1952, the motor mechanic reported that conditions between Bow Rock and Taing of Selwick were deteriorat- ing. The steam trawler Strathelliot had stranded there...