LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
STAMPS WANTED
Mr. Barrie Smale, of 28 Stratford Road, Blacon, Chester, reports continued progress with his R.N.L.I. stamp appeal, a cheque for £13 being received from him in July. Mr. Smale is making up approval books of stamps to send to stamp clubs...
Category: Donations
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Hazardous as two casualties are brought to safety The rescue of two persons trapped at the end of a breakwater by heavy breaking seas has led to David Porritt, helmsman of Staithes and Runswick Atlantic 21 class lifeboat being awarded the...
FROM OARS TO WATERJETS
What has a 25-knot all-weather craft powered with waterjets got in common with a £300 wooden boat with 10 oars? They’re both fundraising targets set by The Lifeboat Fund – the UK civil service charity set up in aid of the RNLI. When the...
Category: Articles
An Anson Aeroplane
JULY 17TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At eight o’clock in the evening the Rhyl life-boat station was told that an Anson aeroplane had come down in the sea seven miles to the north-west, and that Botha aeroplanes and...
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North Sunderland, Northumberland.— 18th January. Red rockets had been reported, but nothing could be found.
It was learned later that a chimney had been on fire, and that burning soot carried seawards had given the...
Kayakers pulled from the sea
TYNEMOUTH AND CULLERCOATS | 18 JANUARY
A trio of kayakers made a radio distress call after their craft capsized just outside Tynemouth Pier, leaving them at the mercy of stormy waters. Cullercoats...
Category: Articles
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Fowey, Cornwall.—About 4.15 in the afternoon of the 7th of August, 1948, news was received that a woman had fallen over the cliffs near Gribben Head, and the motor life-boat C.D.E.C., with a small boat in tow, was launched at 4.35. A strong...
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FEBRUARY 3RD. - EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE.
At 1.5 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a ship’s life-boat about 1 1/2 miles N. of Carr Rock, Berwick-on-Tweed, with men on board, was in need of help. A full...
Alan Malcolm
Alan Malcolm prepares for his 60m abseil for the lifeboats. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Long Service to Oil Tanker
WHEN the 61,000 ton Liberian tanker Torrey Canyon went aground on the Seven Stones on the 18th March, 1967, two life-boats were called out. Both spent many hours at sea.
The first report to reach a life-boat station came...
Category: Services