LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Propeller fouled A SOFT FISHING BOAT, Lizzie, With tWO men on board was reported overdue by a fisherman at Annan on the Scottish side of the Solway Firth on the afternoon of Tuesday, April 29, 1986. The deputy launching authority at Silloth...

Hastings, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 13th of February, 1959, the honorary secretary at Hastings telephoned the coxswain of the Dungeness life-boat to ask if any of the local boats had seen the fishing boat...

A Caithness fundraiser tells us what it’s like to be part of the RNLI family
What do you do?
I’m deputy chairman of the Wick RNLI Fundraising Branch. I’ve been involved for over a decade. Wick’s quite a small...

YARMOUTH | 10 DECEMBER
The all-weather lifeboat crew based at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, headed to the aid of two sailors whose yacht was in danger of losing its mast. The yacht had serious rigging failure, leaving the sailors at...

WE think that the public will be inter- ested to learn something of the way in which the Institution deals with one of the most important branches of the great life-saving work entrusted to it. Few except technicaJ experts can fully realize...

Adrift on ebb tide TWO SAILING DINGHIES capsized off Crail Harbour were reported to the honorary secretary of Anstruther lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1524 on Saturday, May 8. A local rescue boat had been asked to go out and the call...

CROMER AND PALLING, NORFOLK.—At about 4.30 P.M. on the llth February the Cromer Life-boat, Louisa Hearticell, and the Palling No. 2 Life-boat, Hearts of Oak, went off to the Haisbro' Sands in response to a message from the light vessel...

Swedish lifeboat arrives for trials The Swedish Victoria class lifeboat, which is to be trialled by the RNLI as part of the RNLI's Lifeboats 2000 boat development programme, arrived in Poole on 15 February.

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