LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Douglas Hyde, of Rosslare Harbour
ON the 5th of June, 1952, Mrs. Sean O'Kelly, the wife of the President of the Republic of Ireland, named at Wexford the new Rosslare Harbour life-boat, which the committee of management had decided, with the approval of the government of...
Category: Inaugurations
I FLOATED TO LIVE
Each issue we share with you stories of courageous rescues by our lifesavers, but this last year we’ve been hearing from you too. Thanks to our Respect the Water campaign, there has been a different kind of rescue happening around our coasts...
Category: Articles
Renown, Three Fevers and Sincerity
Open fishing boats FLAMBOROUGH COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Bridlington lifeboat station at 0918 on Thursday January 31, 1980, that the coble Renown was in difficulties one mile east of Rolston and some 13 miles south of the...
The Communications Equipment Fitted to the Prototype Severn Class. the Left Hand Control Panel Is the Mf Radio, With the Vhp Radio Third from the Left
The communications equipment fitted to the prototype Severn class. The left hand control panel is the MF radio, with the VHP radio third from the left. The remaining two panels are for an automated distress system operating on... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Thalia and the Erla
TWO YACHTS ESCORTED OVER BAR Salcombe, Devon. At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 3rd August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was drifting in Salcombe estuary with her sails torn.
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A Sailing Long Boat
FOLLOWING A MESSAGE received at 1553 on Saturday March 29, that a.sailing longboat from Wellesley Nautical School Community Home with six crew and an instructor on board had capsized one mile south of the fairway buoy, Blyth D class...
Petan
Humber, Yorkshire - At 3.21 p.m. on 13th September, 1966, it was seen that a cabin cruiser was being towed towards Spurn Head by the pilot launch. They were kept under observation for some tune, and as there was a heavy swell running and...
Nimrod
Coaster capsized A CARGO VESSEL, Nimrod, with a list to starboard and requiring urgent assistance was reported to the honorary secretary of Cromer lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 0358 on Monday November 14, 1977. Her position was given...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At noon on the 28th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a ten-year-old boy had fallen from the top of a cliff a hundred and eighty feet high into the sea half a mile north- west of...
Tsiropinas
— At 6.15 P.M. on the 30th April the Life-boat Charles and Susanna Stephens was launched to the assistance of a large steamer ashore on the Goodwin Sands. On arrival at the stranded vessel five Life-boatmen were placed on board the stranded...