ONLY TOP OF YACHT'S MAST VISIBLE IN SEAS Five saved as yacht drifts on to shoal in gale force windsA service in severe conditions to a disabled yacht with five people aboard has earned Robert Wright, the coxswain of Pwllheli lifeboat,...
Category: Services
Enjoyable sail turns into near disaster Windsurfer Christopher Long was out enjoying a brisk sail last September when gear failure disabled his board and he spent three hours in the water. When Eastbourne's inshore lifeboat picked him up...
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...
Dear Editor Further to your recent rescue account from Appledore, I thought your readers might be interested in the attached.
We acquired Boarding Boat 132 in 1994 after nearly 30 years' service at Appledore lifeboat...
Category: Correspondence
Brian Miles, Director of the RNLI, looks back on 1990 - and forward into the new decade and beyond The deadline for the Winter journal brought home to me that another year has elapsed, a year which I believe has been one of continuing and...
Category: Articles
UNITED STATES.
THE Annual Report of the United States Life-Saving Service for the year ending 30th June, 1912, has been received, and we extract the following details.
Attention is drawn to the fact that...
Category: Articles
FIRST OF ALL, may I say how happy I am to have become associated with Shoreline as membership secretary. It has been a great pleasure to receive your welcoming letters and already, after only a few weeks, I feel that I am among old...
Category: Articles
Twenty-nine rescued JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT on Monday September 29, 1980, the deputy launching authority of Stornoway lifeboat station was informed by HM Coastguard that the 1,615 gross ton motor fishing vessel Junella was aground off Eilean...
About 9.30 P.M.
on the 30th July last, the tug-boat Ex- pert arrived in this harbour with the infor- mation that she had passed a schooner at anchor on the lee side of the bay, in dis- tress from leakage, and in expectation...
IN The Lifeboat for November, 1925, we published an article on the Life- boat Service of Belgium. At that time there were on the thirty-five miles of the Belgian coast ten Life-saving Posts, each provided with a Pulling Life-boat and Rocket...
Category: Articles