LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Helicopter down
10 May: Aberdeen and Peterhead's all-weather lifeboats were called upon when a helicopter carrying oil rig workers crashed into the North Sea. All 14 of the helicopter's passengers and crew made it to the liferafts. Aberdeen lifeboat...
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Rescue relay
When the crew of a stricken cargo boat found themselves being pushed towards Cape Wrath, two lifeboat crews were called into the gale for a 13-hour rescue relay
It was around 8pm on 7 December...
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A Yacht
Doctor to baby AN URGENT MESSAGE was received by Niton Radio at 2323 on Sunday August 21, 1983, from a yacht in the Solent reporting that a baby girl aboard, 15 months old, was desperately ill. Solent Coastguard advised the yacht, which was...
Safeguard Security
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The American Life-Raft for Passenger Ships
TOP VIEW OP A TWO-CYLINDER RAFT.
SIDE VIEW SHOWING STRINGER PIECES, ETC.
SECTIONAL VIEW, CUT TRANSVEBBELT, OF A THREE-CYLINDER RAFT.
THE recent passage across the Atlantic Ocean, from...
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Your shout
Dear Editor
Thought you would like a copy of this photo [main picture], shot from the lifeboat during the tow-in of the Norwegian boat Keltic in poor weather.
Would you have any footage of a Severn...
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Busby
Ramsgate, Kent - At 4.14 p.m. on; 6th February, 1968, the honorary secretary was informed that the small tanker Busby was in difficultiei with her steering gear broken down off Ramsgate harbour. The life-boatMichael and Lily Davis slipped...
Theta
Margate, Kent.—At 9.45 in the morn- ing of the 27th of February, 1949, the coastguard reported that a yacht, three miles to the north-eastwards, was drifting rapidly towards the shore. A strong west-north-west wind was blow- ing and the sea...
Lucille and Pearl
The Life-boat Genrge Leicester was launched at 3.25 P.M. on the 2nd December, it having been reported that two fishing- boats were in danger some few miles N.E. of Minehead. A whole S. gale prevailed at the time, with a rough sea, and the...
Kami-No-Michi
Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 7.45 on the evening of the 19th of August, 1959, thecoxswain was informed that a cabin cruiser had sprung a leak and was sinking in Beaumaris Bay. As it was understood that the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts...