LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two slips in 6 hours
KYLE OF LOCHALSH | 13 SEPTEMBER
A canoeist endured a night alone in a cave by Loch Carron after slipping and injuring himself. In the morning he crawled out to get reception on his mobile and called...
Category: Articles
New Life-Boats
PORT LOGAN, WIGTOWNSHIRE.—It will be remembered that in the number of the Life-Boat Journal issued in Novem- ber last it was mentioned that the boat on this station had been replaced by a new Life-boat of the latest self-righting type...
Category: Inaugurations
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUHTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
Patron His Most Gracious Majesty the King
Chairman— H eputg= Ibairman— COLONEL SIR FrrzRov CLAYTON, K.C.V.O., V.P. . SIR JOHN CAMKROX LAMB, C.B., C.M.G.,...
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A Fishing Boat (8)
OCTOBER 1ST. - PETERHEAD, AHERDEENSHIRE.
A fishing boat had been reported overdue, but it was found that she had put into Aberdeen. - Rewards, £13 3s. 6d..
An R.A.F. Spitfire Aeroplane
MARCH 1ST . - WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. An R.A.F. Spitfire aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the pilot was rescued by a trawler and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £6 13s..
H.M.S. Jeanie Deans and The Barges Ida, of Harwich and Xylonite, of Ipswich
DECEMBER 17TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 6.25 in the morning a request was received from the naval control for the life-boat to go to the Maplin Sands where a vessel had been driven ashore on the Black tail Spit. A strong southerly...
The right call
Liam is readying himself for the shout as he laces his shoes. ‘As soon as you hear that pager, there’s an adrenaline rush. And then you take a breath and you mellow yourself. You think: “Right. What could we be going to?”’
Category: Articles
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Howth, Co. Dublin. At 5.5 on the evening of the 3rd June, 1961, the coxswain was informed that someone had fallen over the cliffs at the Nose of Howth. Ten minutes later the life-boat R.P.L. put to sea with her boarding boat in...
Golden Charter
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Wave Dancer
Tyne's inflatable used to reach stranded fishing boat survivors A service to a 17ft fishing vessel and her crew of two in hazardous conditions, among rocks and in rough seas, has earned two men from Wick's lifeboat station the Thanks...