LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rowing Boat
Two visitors put out from St. Mary's at noon on the 27th August to row between the islands.
They did not return, and at 8.55 P.M.
the coastguard telephoned that they had left Bryher about 7.30 P.M.,...
Arka
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 11.44 on the morning of the 30th of August, 1954, the Carnoustie coastguard rang up to say that the motor fishing boat Arka, of Gydnia, which had a sick man on board, had run aground one and a half miles...
The RNLI and me: Sir Steve Redgrave
WHO IS SIR STEVE REDGRAVE?
Rower Sir Steve Redgrave is the only person to win gold medals at five different Olympic Games. He now works in the media, with charities, and as a motivational speaker.
The five-time...
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Marianne Bodker
Danish fishing vessel aground KIRKWALL COASTGUARD fired maroons to alert the lifeboat at 2045 on Friday, March 5, having seen a fishing vessel, Marianne Bodker of Denmark, ashore on Coubister Skerries.
The 70' Clyde...
View our AGM
AGM (IN POOLE, DUBLIN, LONDON OR PERTH) Would you like to come along to the RNLI Annual General Meeting? This year, as reported in previous editions of the magazine, it’s in a new venue. Our AGM has been held at the Barbican in London for...
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St John
The Life-boat James Stevens No. 16 saved the yawl St. John, belonging to Ballinagoul, and her crew of four hands during a strong W.N.W. gale with heavy squalls on the 13th January. The vessel had been trawling near Ballina- courty...
Testerossa
A busy month for St Ives On 21 May 2006, relief Mersey class Royal Shipwright attended the 21m Testerossa, 27 miles north west of St Ives in near-galeforce winds. Sennen Cove's Tyne class Norman Salvesen joined in to achieve 5 knotsto St...
A Canoe
Eastbourne, Sussex.—About 11.20 in the morning of the llth of September, '1949, the police reported that a canoe had capsized oil Falling Sands. The occupants, a man and his two small children, had been trying to round Beachy Head. Ten...
The S.S. Valborg, of Copenhagen
NOVEMBER 27TH. - FOWEY, CORNWALL,.
At 7.30 at night the S.S. Valborg, of Copenhagen, which was off the harbour, signalled on her siren for a pilot. A fresh south-southwest gale was blowing, with a rough...
Major H. E. Burton, G.C.,O.B.E.
Major H. E. Burton, of the Royal Engineers, who died in December, 1944, in his eightieth year, will always be remembered as one of the outstanding figures in the Life-boat Service in the difficult days when motor-power was replacing oars and...
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