LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Springtide
Gale search A 999 CALL was received by Hartland Coastguard at 2125 on Saturday April 25 from the owner and skipper of the 55ft auxiliary ketch Springtide. He told them that the yacht had been moored in an exposed position in Ilfracombe...
Lifeboats to the Flood Rescue
• ev he first call came at 7.40am on Thursday 12 October. Following some of the heaviest rain ever seen in the South East. East Sussex Fire Brigade requested the RNLI's assistance with flood relief in Uckfield. This was the start of a...
Category: Services
Collisions at Sea In Fogs
THE Council of the SOCIETY OF ARTS appointed a Committee in March, 1883, with the full concurrence of the Marine Department of the BOARD OP TRADE, to inquire into and consider the question of collision at sea, the scope of the in- quiry...
Category: Articles
BRINGING THEM HOME
Towing a stricken boat to the safety of port might seem routine but, in often gruelling conditions, it takes great skill and smart decision making. So what’s involved in a tow?
First, the crew must decide whether or not they need...
Category: Articles
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
PORTHOUSTOCK, CORNWALL. A Small fishing boat of Porthallow with one man on board capsized and sank off Porthallow Cove when returning from fishing at about 1.30 P.M. on the 6th April. A strong N.W. breeze was blowing with a rough sea....
Category: Services
To Five Vessels In One Day. Bronze Medal to the Southend-On-Sea Coxswain
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 139 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 25 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1938 - - - - 65,989 To Five Vessels in One...
Category: Services
A Brave Schoolgirl
A Holiday at Skipsea LAST summer a fifteen-year-old school- girl was holidaying at Skipsea, near Bridlington. Her home was at Baildon near Shipley, and she was staying with her parents at Sea Cabin Bungalow, Green Lane, which stood near the...
Category: Articles
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Boys on a Perch ON HEARING from the Coastguard that two boys were cut off by the tide and were clinging to the perch marking the sewer outfall between Rhyl and Prestatyn (Flintshire), the Rhyl honorary secretary immediately assembled his...
The Long Tow
WHEN THE new Gorleston 44-foot steel life-boat Khami on 5th September, 1967» went to the aid of the m.v. Aureity, whose steering gear had broken down, no one knew then that the life-boat would end up by towing the auxiliary cutter...
Category: Services
The Late M. Albert, Inspector of Life-Boats to the French Life-Boat Society
IT is a calamity, and a cause of deep re- gret, when a man engaged in, and pecu- liarly fitted for, the development and con- solidation of a national work is torn from his labours by death, while still much of his undertaking remains to be...
Category: Obituaries