LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Body-Board
Off-duty lifeguard saves body-boarder When a man was caught by a rip current and swept towards some rocks at Newquay, Rod MacDonald, an off-duty Beach Rescue lifeguard, acted instinctively and bravely to save the man's lifeOff-duty Beach...
Lecture on Life-Boats
I.—Preliminary Remarks, IN a country bounded on all sides by the sea, whose earliest associations are connected with it, through the medium of which it has derived its civilization, its wealth, its grand political status, and probably to a...
Category: Articles
Swimming under the sky
Why are more and more swimmers shunning heated, chlorinated indoor swimming pools in favour of rivers, lakes and the sea?
Outdoor swimming has enjoyed a resurgence recently, whether people are bathing in backwaters, bays,...
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April
Launches 42 Lives rescued 16 APRIL 1ST. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMAPRIL BERLAND. At 1.40 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that the local fishing coble Fisher Lass was overdue. There was a dense fog, and a heavy swell was breaking on the...
Category: Services
Three Men Jump from a Fishing Vessel
AT 5.2.3 on the afternoon of the 26th of July, 1954, a man at Aberdovey telephoned the Aberystwyth, Cardi- ganshire, life-boat station to say that a fishing vessel was in difficulties between Towyn and Aberdovey. Immediately afterwards the...
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Feature Lifeboats on the Thames
On 20 August 1989 the pleasure cruiser Marchioness and dredger Bowbelle collided on London's River Thames beneath Southwark Bridge. The accident, which cost the lives of 51 people, led to demands for a fundamental review of emergency...
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Fishing Boats (4)
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 6 A.M. on the 23rd December, 1938, seven motor fishing boats left harbour on the ebb tide. The very heavy seas of the previous few days had moderated.
When the tide began to flow the sea got up again...
Albion
Blackpool, Lancashire.—At 1.30 P.M.
on the 26th October, 1939, the coxswain telephoned that he had had a fishing boat under observation since noon.
She was trying to beat up from about three miles south of...
The Galilee, Provider A, Venus, Pilot Me II, Success, etc
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 8.30 in the morning on the 24th of February, 1950, fishermen reported that one of sixfishing vessels which had put out in the early hours, was making for harbour.
The sea off the entrance was broken...
The Launch D.421049
NOVEMBER 26TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 5.5 in the afternoon the coastguard asked for the life-boat to go out and escort in the naval harbour launch. A westsouth- west wind was blowing, with a heavy swell on the harbour bar....