LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IN the last issue of The Lifeboat an account was published of the Memorial Service at Bridlington for the men who lost their lives on 10th February, 1871, when an unusually severe gale burst on the north-east coast of England, and at...

On 24th June the yacht Volga, of Kingstown, entered Carlingford Lough in a norther- ly gale and experienced considerable difficulty in coming to anchor. She eventually anchored under the Coast- guard station. On the morning of 25th June she...

Regular readers of theLifeboat will know that the RNLI takes training very seriously. But there are some things in life that no amount of training can prepare you for. We follow 26-year-old Alison Panes as she takes us through her first few...

South East Division Sick man taken off in gale AN IRISH CONTAINER SHIP, Bell Rover, contacted Dover coastguard on the evening of Tuesday November 20,1984, seeking medical advice about one of her crew members who was sick. After consultation...

MFV broken down HM COASTGUARD reported to the deputy launching authority of Southend-on-Sea lifeboat station at 1706 on Sunday May 2, 1982, that MFV Mary had broken down and had asked for immediate help; she was about 15 miles east of the...

During a heavy W.N.W. gale, which was experi- enced on the Lancashire coast on the 11 th December, the Life-boats were called out to the assistance of the steamer Hebe, of Bergen, bound from Norway to Preston with a cargo of wood pulp. The...

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