LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Murray Walker
VOICes ‘The lifeboat volunteers make me proud to be British.’ Murray Walker The voice of Formula One tells Rory Stamp of his admiration for the RNLI’s crews ‘I’ve always had immeasurable respect for them,’ says Murray Walker as he watches...
Category: Articles
Letters
THE JOURNAL 0 I feel that I cannot let the July edition of your journal pass without comment. I would have thought that the object of a publication named THE LIFE-BOAT would have been to give ne vs on developments, e.g. the article by Lieut....
Category: Correspondence
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First season success Glorious sunshine brought many to Croyde and Woolacombe beaches, North Devon, on 11 June 2006, but high surf and strong rip currents combined to make a busy day for RNLI lifeguards. They used their rescue watercraft to...
Marie Josephine
At 6.30 P.M. on the 6th November, information was received at this Life-boat Station of a vessel being stranded on the Doom bar. The Life-boat Albert Edward proceeded to her assistance, and was successful in rescuing 4 men who had been...
Lizzie and Annie
The fishing yawl Lizzie and Annie, oi Arbroath, was returning to port from the fishing grounds about midday on the 7th October, when owing to the strong S.E. wind and heavy sea it was realized that both the boat and her crew would be in...
England
Dungeness, Kent. — At 3.15 on the morning of the 6th of August, 1952, a steamer was heard to blow her siren half a mile north-east of the life-boat station, and at 3.55 the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was...
Elleana
Wells, Norfolk.—About 11.40 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that the motor yacht Elleana, of Great Yarmouth, appeared to be in difficulties outside the harbour. The life-boat Cecil Paine was launched at noon...
Two Fishing Vessels (1)
DANGEROUS SWELL North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 11.38 a.m. on 24th February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two fishing vessels were trying to enter harbour when there was a heavy and dangerous...
Salaverry
SHIPS IN COLLISION At 11.30 p.m. on 22nd October, 1965, the coastguard reported that two vessels had been in collision in fog between the Q.2 and the Bar Ship; one, the m.v.
Salaverry, a passenger ship, was badly holed. The...