LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Child resuscitated at Perran Sands Lucy A Beach Rescue lifeguard was patrolling between the red and yellow flags on a warm sunny day in Cornwall, when he spotted a woman waving frantically for help on the beach. Her young daughter had fallen...
Farewell to Andrew
RNLI Chief Executive Andrew Freemantle retired in September after 10 years’ service.
During his time at the RNLI, Andrew led on the creation and introduction of the world’s first Lifeboat College; a world-class lifeguard...
Category: Articles
The Lifeboat Is Packed Up and Dispatched By Students of Poole Adult Training Centre (Left) Recently the Centre Donated £30 from Its Amenity Fund to the Rnli And
THE LIFEBOAT is packed up and dispatched by students of Poole Adult Training Centre (left). Recently the Centre donated £30 from its amenity fund to the RNLI and (above) Mrs J. Sykes, deputy manager, presents the cheque to Commander E.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
People and Places
In appreciation...
Back in September 1992 Andrew McDonald was sailing his father's yacht Whisky Mac when she ran into trouble near the Channel Islands - see The Lifeboat, Winter 1992/3 - and the Alderney lifeboat was...
Category: Articles
Fishing Cobles (1)
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE.—While some of the fishing cobles were at sea on the 12th May, the wind, which was blowing in a north-easterly direction, freshened and the sea became rough. As it was probable that some of the boats would require...
Fishing Boats (1)
Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 3.8 p.m. on 27th February, 1967, it was learned that six fishing vessels were still at sea and concern was felt for their safety in view of the deteriorating weather conditions. There was a strong gale from the...
The Imperial Airways Aeroplane Boadicea
Dungeness, Kent, and Hastings, Sussex.
—On the evening of the 25th September it was reported by the coastguard that the Imperial Airways aeroplane Boadicea, bound from Croydon to Paris, was missing. She had last been seen...
The S.S. Zembra
The s.s. Zembra, of Dunkirk, bound from Hartlepool to Savona, laden with coal, and carrying a crew of twenty-nine, ran aground on the Haisborough Sands, on the night of the 19th November, during a fog. Informa- tion was received from the...
Rosita
On rocks BELFAST COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Donaghadee lifeboat station at 2355 on Thursday May 21, 1981, that a motor cruiser with three people on board was aground near the entrance to Copelands Marina, south of the...
Camelia, Magdalene, Mon Ami and Annie Mearns
MONTROSE, FORFARSHIRE.—Nine of the large fishing-boats went out to the line fishery grounds, about ninety miles distant from the land, on the morning of the 8th May. On the following evening the wind, which was blowing from E.N.E., increased...