LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Up Spirits
Weather deteriorated ON THE EVENING of Wednesday, September 8, 1976, the yacht Up Spirits anchored in New Quay Bay. Her owner and one member of the crew remained on board while the other slept ashore.
During the night the...
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Knox
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 12.56 on the afternoon of the 8th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was in trouble off Canvey Island. At 1.24 on the ebbing tide the life-boat Greater London II (Civil...
The Power of the Sea
Dunbar’s Trent class all-weather lifeboat Sir Ronald Pechell Bt parted the ground chain of her moorings and was repeatedly thrown against rocks in ferocious conditions of up to storm force 10 in the early hours of Easter...
Category: Articles
Prelude and Marie Christine
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides - At 4.20 p.m. on 2oth February, 1967, two French trawlers, the Prelude and the Marie Christine, were reported to have broken down 10 miles west of Ardnamurchan.
The life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin...
Janet
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 5.3 on the afternoon of the 5th of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a small boat was in difficulties off Pen- ryn Point South Stack. The life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched at 5.12....
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Ballycotton and Youghal, Co. Cork, and Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.— 14th-15th November, 1932. Rockets reported to have been seen at sea but nothing could be found.—Rewards, Ballycotton, £15 14s., Youghal, £15 7s.
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Galway's Arun uses inflatable to snatch skin divers to safety from surfCoxswain Padraig Dillane and Crew Members Seamus Flaherty and Mairtin Fitzpatrick of the Galway Bay lifeboat have been accorded the Thanks of the Royal National...
Tim Batstone Passes Land's End on His Record-Breaking 1777 Mile Journey Round Britain Longships Lighthouse Is In the Background the Circumnavigation Took Him 70 Days In All
Tim Batstone passes Land's End on his record-breaking 1,777 mile journey round Britain. - View image in PDF
Longships Lighthouse is in the background. The circumnavigation took him 70 days in all.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
May Blossom (1)
Barmouth, Merionethshire. At 3.35 on the afternoon of the 5th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the fishing boat May Blossom was in difficulties four miles south-west of Barmouth, and at 3.45 the life-boat The Chieftain...