LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Barry Dock August 8 1987:
BARRY DOCK, August 8, 1987: both Barry Dock's Arun and Penarth's 16ft inflatable were called out when this drilling rig, in use for the proposed barrage at Cardiff, broke through the crust of the sea bed and listed to 40 degrees. Two... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Kismet, of Preston
SEPTEMBER 29TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. At 11.45 in the morning the life-boat coxswain, while on the pier at Lytham, saw a sailing yacht coming up the river with her mast and sail overboard. A strong easterly wind was blowing, with a...
Notes of the Quarter
ON HER EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY, August 4, HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother was sent the following telegram by our Chairman, the Duke of Atholl: 'Members of the RNLI Committee of Management, lifeboat crews, voluntary workers and staff thank...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Services of the World: Iceland
WE are very glad to record the founding of another Life-boat Service. It is in Iceland, is a voluntary Service like'our own, and makes the number of National Life-boat Services seventeen, of which number four are maintained by the State,...
Category: Articles
An Admiralty Motor Fishing Vessel
SEPTEMBER 23RD. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. A man had been washed overboard from an Admiralty motor fishing vessel, but the life-boat could not find him. His body came ashore later. - Rewards, £10 5s..
A Motor Vessel (1)
NOVEMBER 6TH. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
A motor vessel had gone ashore, but her crew were in no danger and she refloated later. - Rewards, £15 4s..
A Fishing Boat (2)
OCTOBER 10TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. A fishing boat had gone ashore, but she didnot need help and got off later in the day.
- Rewards, £7 18s..
None (42)
JULY 21ST. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.
A light had been reported, but nothing was found and later a flashing buoy was washed up. - Rewards, £22 10s..
Timothy's toughest plot
At sea, things don’t always go according to script – which is what led Timothy and Shane Spall to head offshore
‘If I get better, we will get a boat,’ declared Timothy Spall. It was 1996. A...
Category: Articles
SINKING IN THE DARK
When Angle crew members were jolted awake by the beeping of pagers at 2am, they faced a race against time to rescue the crew of a sinking fishing boat.
Waking to a direct page from the Coastguard on that chilly morning on...
Category: Articles