LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Your Shout
your shout Dear Editor, My wife and I were privileged recently to spend a day visiting RNLI Headquarters at Poole. Every aspect that we saw or heard made us deeply proud of the Lifeboat service and full of admiration both for the people and...
Category: Correspondence
M.F.V. Ecstasy and M.F.V. Broadside
Escort THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Southwold lifeboat station received a request at 1335 on Monday January 31, 1983, for the lifeboat to escort MFV Ecstasy and MFV Broadside to Lowestoft; the weather was too bad for the fishing vessels...
Sule Skerry
Seven saved FALMOUTH, Sunday May 24, 1987: The 56ft yacht Sule Skerry was in the Helford River with a heavy swell running when a rope fouled her propeller and she was driven into a rocky cleft at the foot of the cliffs at Durgan, near...
Result, of Guernsey
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the afternoon of the 1st January, when a strong gale from the N.E. and a fresh in the river had set up an unusually heavy sea on the bar of the Tweed, the barque Result, of Guernsey, which was bound from Sombrero to...
Index to the Branches
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Category: Branches
Guiding Hand
At 1233 on Tuesday November 18, a mayday was received by Dover Coastguard from the trawler Guiding Hand, on fire six miles north east of Ramsgate.
Her four crew were fighting the fire. A helicopter was scrambled from RAF...
None (3)
Two fishermen lost LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD received a 999 call at 2159 on August 19, 1979, from Braystones reporting that twomen who had gone fishing in an inflatable dinghy had not returned. It was thought that they had gone south to the...
None (2)
Injured boy IN THE EARLY EVENING of Monday May 10, a skin diver, David Morrison, was ashore at Bovisand Beach, 2!/2 miles south east of Plymouth lifeboat station, when he saw a boy trying to attract attention on the opposite side of the bay....
The Life-Boat Station
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 284 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Station
THB following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 294 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles