LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The jammy Geordie
Robson Green’s acting, presenting and singing skills have earned him sparkling success, but he’ll never forget his rugged roots
I’m from Northumberland mining stock – my father,...
Category: Articles
A Motor Launch
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At 12.10 early on the morning of the 8th of November, 1956, a telephone message was received from the Dublin harbour office that a motor launch with three men on board needed help two hundred yards south of Poolbeg...
The Women of Boulmer. Seven Hours on Duty In a December Night's Blizzard
ON 20th December, 1925, a blizzard was blowing on the north-east coast, one of the severest for many years. The s.s.
Amble, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, a collier which loads at Amble, was riding at anchor in Alnmouth Bay, but...
Category: Services
Fishing Cobles (2)
Exciting scenes were witnessed at Scarborough on the 13th December, when the Life-boat Queensbury was launched to the assist- ance of some fishing cobles. "When the cobles put to sea the weather was moderately fine, but as the morning...
A Yacht
Yacht aground THE POLICE informed Barrow coxswain, Robert Charnley, at 2300 on August 24, 1974, that an independent source had reported the sighting of a red flare north of Walney Island. They were advising HM Coastguard, who would be...
Going Alongside from Page 123
of getting a survivor directly out of the water. How many men does it take to get one man out of the water? Jones: We picked up two men a month ago, and one of them was completely unconscious. We put the scrambling net down; two men went...
Category: Articles
Twilight
HELICOPTER-LIFE-BOAT SEARCH FOR MISSING MAN Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 2.30 p.m.
on Wednesday the 10th of July, 1963, the life-boat coxswain reported that a man who had put off for a fishing trip off Bembridge in the...
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Aith, Shetlands. At 3.10 p.m. on 5th October, 1964, a local doctor told the honorary secretary that a patient on Foula was seriously ill and needed urgent hospital treatment. At 3.35, when the doctor boarded the life-boat, the John and...
Fokke Dejong
HELP FOR DUTCH At 12.5 a.m. on 5th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the superintendent coxswain that the Dutch motor vessel Fokke dejong needed the help of the lifeboat to land a sick man. It was arranged that the life-boat would...
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Swanage, Dorset.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 31st of July, 1954, when the life-boat was about to be launched for the life-boat flag-day, a police sergeant told the coxswain that a woman was missing and was thought to be on a cliff at...