LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
True lifeline
A woman slipped on rocks while fishing near Aberdovey on 8 June. Despite being in severe pain from suspected wrist and knee fractures she got back to shore herself where coastguards and paramedics gave first aid. It was too difficult to...
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Amber
At 11.5 a.m. on 2yth February, 1967, it was indicated that concern was felt for six fishing boats which were still at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather conditions. There was a gale from the south south east with a very rough sea.
A Sailing Dinghy
Saved boat and three SHOREHAM HARBOUR DLA was informed by HM Coastguard at 1405 on Wednesday July 20, 1977, that a 14' sailing dinghy was half submerged just west of the harbour entrance; one of her crew of three could be seen in the...
Verbena
The Life-boat Bradford, and steam-tug Vulcan, were called out by guns from the Gall Light-vessel, and a flare on the Goodwin Sands at 8 P.M. on the 21st February, during a fresh breeze from the N. On Hearing the sands the Life-boat left the...
Your Shout
Your Shout To add your shout, write to the Editor at [email protected] or RNLI Headquarters, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset, BH15 1HZ Dear Editor I am in my 90s but one thingI have never forgotten is when I ‘just went for a swim’. I was...
Category: Correspondence
Seniority
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 10.2 on the night of the 28th of March, 1952, the Walton-on-the-Naze coast- guard telephoned a wireless message from the motor vessel Seniority, of London, that she had lost an anchor and was drifting towards...
10 years on the beaches
The RNLI prides itself on a long lifesaving tradition but, in order to save more lives, it is alert to changes in how people use the sea
People still go to sea for a living. But by the year...
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January 1881: Three Weeks of Storms and Blizzards Just a Hundred Years Ago By Ray Kipling Public Relations Officer
A CENTURY AGO lifeboat crews were nearly all fishermen who spent most of their time working at sea and were well used to long periods of exposure in harsh conditions. Their lifeboats, although the best of their day, were simple open boats...
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An Anson Aeroplane (1)
JULY 17TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At eight o’clock in the evening the Rhyl life-boat station was told that an Anson aeroplane had come down in the sea seven miles to the north-west, and that Botha aeroplanes and...
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept hi roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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