LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Goodyear for flood rescue
The RNLI Flood Rescue team, which responds to flooding emergencies at home and abroad, has teamed up with tyre manufacturer Goodyear – and supporters can benefit too.
The Flood Rescue team is made up of RNLI crew members...
Category: Articles
A Gold Medal for Conspicuous Gallantry: Second Coxswain Keith Bower of Torbay With the Crew Who Sailed With Him In Storm Force Winds on Monday December 6 197
A gold medal for conspicuous gallantry: Second Coxswain Keith Bower of Torbay with the crew who sailed with him in storm force winds on Monday December 6, 1976, to the rescue of the crew of MV Lyrma. (/. to r.) Crew Member John Dew, Second... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A German Trawler
1st December.
A German trawler, the Spitzbergen, of Wesermunde, stranded and the life- boat crew assembled, but did not launch, as the vessel was not in im- mediate danger. Later a message, believed to have come from...
A Ship
JUNE 18TH and 19TH. - ST. HELIER, JERSEY. During the afternoon of the 18th of June a ship had been reported to be on fire about eight miles to the south-south-west of St. Helier Harbour, but the life-boat couldfind nothing. It was thought to...
A Dinghy
Meanwhile, a report had reached Clyde Coastguard that another small boat, this time an open dinghy with three people on board, was being blown offshore from the mainland at Saltcoats while its occupants tried in vain to paddle ashore with...
Five Alive
PAGe tItLe RescUe FIVe ALIVe two miles from land, a group of kayakers was at the mercy of gale force offshore winds. How could they summon help and how long could they stay afloat? mairéad Dwane reports tHe DetAIL insHORe LiFeBOat B-789...
Category: Articles
IRB Launches. Rescues by IRB's in August were Carried out by the Following Stations
Rescues by IRB's in August were carried out by the following stations: NORTH WEST Moelfre, Anglesey - At 9.28 a.m. on 16th August, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boat was in difficulties in Red Wharf bay. The IRB...
Category: Services
On the Self-Righting Principle In Life Boats
SINCE the publication of the Report of the Northumberland Life-boat Committee, a good deal has been said and written on the subject of the self-righting principle in life-boats in the event of their being upset, a quality which was strongly...
Category: Articles
How a Trimaran Was Saved
AT Lowestoft on Saturday the 21st July, 1962, a large number of holiday- makers watched a drama take its course as a trimaran was brought safely into harbour after spending some hours in distress in full view of the...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Freden, of Stockholm
SEPTEMBER 21ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 3.18 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that the S.S. Freden, of Stockholm, was making for Yarmouth Roads and had asked for a doctor, as the captain was injured. A light...