LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats (6)
BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.—A strong pale sprung up from the N.E. on the 27th February, accompanied by a heavy sea which broke right across the entrance to Cluny harbour. A fishing-lugger, whilst coming in, was struck by one of the heavy seas and...
FLASH FICTION
Instead of beating yourself up about not writing that novel, tell a shorter story with the help of RNLI Helm and Writer Eleanor Hooker. You might even get published ...
Flash fiction has one rule: stick to the word count....
Category: Articles
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures In 1985 RNLI lifeboats have so far launched 749 times, saving 305 lives.
In 1984 lifeboats launched 3,613 times (an average of nearly ten times a day) and saved 1,330 lives (an average of over three people...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy
Divers found AT 2018 on July 25, 1987 Falmouth Coastguard MRCC received a report of an overdue dinghy with four people on board - two men, a woman and child - and alerted Falmouth's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat Sole Bay, which...
In at the deep end
What's it like to join lifeboat volunteers in the sea survival pool? Philly Byrde finds out ...
'This is your Captain speaking. Abandon ship! abandon ship!' Oh good. This is exactly...
Category: Articles
A Fishing Fleet
The Girvan fish- ing fleet were out fishing early on the morning of the 28th February, when a gale sprang up from S.W., which veered to N.W. and increased in violence. All the boats reached harbour safely with the exception of four, and...
Finlandia
LIFE-BOAT AND TUGS TO HELP OF DUTCH VESSEL St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 4.45 on the morning of the 4th March, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Dutch vessel was in distress, and though the position of the...
Thomas Owen
The Palling No. 2 Life-boat, British Workman, was also launched at 9 A.M. on the 14th June, during a strong breeze from the N. and a very heavy sea, signals having been fired by the North Float Light-vessel. The boat made for the Happisburgh...
Life-Saving Hammocks
AMONGST the various articles designed to save life on occasions of disaster to ships, perhaps one of the most natural was a seaman's bed or mattress, composed of buoyant materials. Since the space on shipboard for the stowage of anything...
Category: Articles
I See No Ships
To mark Milford Haven's bi-centenary year the 1990 annual lifeboat bazaar organised by Hakin Point branch took on a distinctive 'Nelsonian' touch in honour of the naval hero's link with the port.
It was also... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs