LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Calf Sound
Seven-hour service to cargo vessel in storm conditions Giving help to the 400-ton cargo vessel Calf Sound kept Eyemouth's 44ft Waveney busy for some seven hours in winds of up to Force 10 on 25 March 1988. The vessel was anchored about...
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Girvan, Ayrshire. About six o'clock on the evening of the 15th August, 1961, the honorary secretary received a message from the man in charge of the lighthouse supply boat at Ailsa Craig that a quarryman was suffering from a badly...
Helmsman Frank Dunster of Hayling Island
Helmsman Frank Dunster of Hayling Island. He joined the lifeboat crew in August 1974 having previously been connected with the Hayling Island Sea Rescue and Research Organisation. Frank was awarded a chairman's letter in 1978, a bronze... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Vermont, of Halifax
on 20th Oct., saved 16 men from the barque Vermont, of Halifax..
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Category: Articles
Happy Returns
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 8.21 on the morning of the 2nd of June, 1951, the coastguard passed on the news that a Trinity House vessel had, through Newhaven Radio, reported the East- bourne fishing vessel Happy Returns disabled by an engine...
This Is Your Life " When Eamonn Andrews Approached Brian Bevan at the Kodak Photographic Gallery High Holborn Last March It Was the Seventh Time He Had Said These Famous Words to a Li
This is your life . . . " When Eamonn Andrews approached Brian Bevan at the Kodak Photographic Gallery, High Holborn, last March, it was the seventh time he had said these famous words to a lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Anna Henny
Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 19th of November, 1952, the Redcar coastguard tele- phoned that he had fired a rocket to warn a vessel that she was heading for Salt Scar Rocks. The vessel did not seem to...
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures In 1987 the RNLI's lifeboats have so far launched 2,518 times, saving 1,046 lives.
In 1986 lifeboats launched 3,723 times (an average of over 10 times each day) and saved 1,424 lives (an average of...
Category: Articles
Abandoned ship
Five French fishermen took to their liferaft in the early hours of Tuesday 8 March when their 17m trawler Cap Lizard ran aground half a mile from Alderney. The island’s Trent class lifeboat Roy Barker...
Category: Articles