LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Margate Life-Boat Saves a French Trawler
AT 3.50 early on the morning of the 19th of December, 1953, the coast- guard rang up to say that the police had reported that the trawler Notre Dame de la Mer, of Boulogne, had run on to the rocks on Foreness Point about one and a half miles...
Category: Services
Mina
LIFE-BOAT AND TUG IN HARD TOW THE Falmouth, Cornwall, life-boat on 8th August, 1972, following the sighting of a redflare at about 3.40 a.m., saved a schooner and 10 people.
The wind was south westerly, force 6-7, with a...
Lord Saltoun Mc By His Grace the Duke of Atholl Chairman of the Committee of Management
WITH THE DEATH of Lord Saltoun, the RNLI has lost one of its most devoted supporters. His main interest was not so much in technical matters such as boats and methods of communication, but in the people who worked for the Institution, its...
Category: Obituaries
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Jump from pier SOUTHEND STATION MECHANIC, Robert Chalk, was walking with two friends, Frederick Robinson (ILB crew) and Bernard Barton, near the lifeboathouse on Southend Pier at 0900 on Monday, November 25, 1974, when, looking into the sea...
Mary
Broken in two A MESSAGE from HM Coastguard was received by New Brighton lifeboat station at 1438 on Saturday July 11 to say that a motorboat, Mary, was in trouble off New Brighton bathing pool; she was taking in water.
The...
Sea Fox (4)
Search success AT 1820 ON FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1987, Tyne Tees Coastguards were alerted by the mother of one of two men aboard the Hartlepool-based fishing boat Sea Fox that the vessel was six hours overdue at the east coast...
A Yacht
D class inflatable tows large yacht to safety A service to a yacht by Lough Swilly's D class inshore lifeboat last July has earned the station a letter of congratulation from the RNLI's chief of operations, Commodore George Cooper....
A Surfboard
Short service iust 500 yards from station - but a surfer's life is saved Ashort but very difficult service by North Sunderland's D class inflatable lifeboat on 18 May 1996 undoubtedly saved the life of a surfer, and also led to the...
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Brighton ls_Atl.antic_s_aves two from pier underwater obstructions and a Force 7 onshore wind A service with chilling echoes of the Silver medal service carried out by the same station nearly four years ago Brighton's Atlantic 75 Thelma...
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Two inshore lifeboats save man cut off by tide A service by Redcar's Atlantic 21 and D class to a man cut off by the / x t i d e some five miles away from the station has earned Atlantic Crew member Tony Wild, D class helmsman Mark...