LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kings of Wessex School Cheddar
A tug of war across the river, or for one of these gallant but presumably doomed young competitors, over the river.
This was just one of the ways that pupils from Kings of Wessex School, Cheddar, succeeded in raising... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Index to Advertisers
Brookes & Gatehouse Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Castrol Ltd 31 C.A.V. Ltd 25 Chloride Group Companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Coastal Radio Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27...
Category: Index
Drama on deck
22 August 2012: Bembridge lifeboat crew mounted a delicate operation to remove a man with a broken ankle from an oil tanker. The rescue helicopter had been grounded due to heavy fog, so the crew had to stretcher...
Category: Articles
The Drilling Rig William Allpress
RIG SERVICE IN 60 KNOT GALE AROUND 1.30 p.m. on 19th October, 1971, it was learnt that the crew of the drilling rig William Allpress were in need of assistance. The rig was anchored J mile off Rustington, Sussex, and had been in this...
Northern Ireland
THE WORK of our Northern Irish lifeboat crews continues in the same admirable way as that of their fellow seamen at all other RNLI stations. As to financial branches, last year RNLI committees and their helpers raised £30,000, a record...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (37)
OCTOBER 21ST. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY. About 1.15 in the morning the coastguard sent a message to the coxswain that an aeroplane wasin distress, burning red flares, off Dulas Island, some three miles to the west.
The coxswain...
Linnet
SEARCH FOR YACHT REPORTED ON FIRE Troon, Ayrshire. At 1.34, early on the morning of the 13th May, 1962, the coastguard told the honorary secretary a message had been received that a yacht was on fire somewhere in the Sound of Bute and said...
Loch Alsh
SALTBURN-BY-THE-SEA, YORKSHIRE. — On the 29th November, this coast was visited by the most severe gale experienced for many years past. The wind had been gradually increasing from the previous day; until at S A.M. it was blowing a perfect...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ARANMORE ISLAND, COUNTY DONEGAL.
—On the application of the local residents, the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat establishment on Aran- more Island on the north-west coast of Ireland. The coast in...
Category: Articles
Lugo
Yacht towed to safety from breaking seas on lee shore A difficult service in darkness, gale force winds and heavy breaking seas just yards from a sea wall has earned Coxswain James Kinnon of Ramsey lifeboat station the Thanks of the...