LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailboard (1)
Marooned on dolphin THE DLA of Morecambe lifeboat station was informed by Liverpool Coastguard at 1625 on Sunday October 17, 1982, that a board sailor was in difficulties in Half Moon Bay, near Heysham. Maroons were fired at 1628 and at 1635...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—The large Life- boat on this station, having become through frequent use, unfit for further service, has been replaced by a new boat, which, like the one it superseded, has been named the Covent Garden, in acknow- ledgement...
Category: Articles
Ceremonies
Berwick - Mersey class Joy and Charles Beeby Berwick might be in England - just - but when the day dawned for the town's new Mersey class lifeboat to be named, on 23 March 1993, it was as braw a morning as any in Scotland. The...
Category: Inaugurations
Services of Life-Boats
NORFOLK LIFE-BOATS.—At daybreak, on Sunday, the 23rd of Feb. last, the wind plowing heavily from the N.N.E. with thick storms of rain and sleet, the sloop Hannah, of Gainsborough, laden with a general cargo bound to London, was observed by...
Category: Services
Express
ARKLOW. — On the morning of the 28th March, the schooner Express, of and for Wexford, from Dublin, while beating down against a strong S.W. wind between the Arklow Bank and the mainland, the weather at the time being thick, with rain, stood...
Punching waves
With skill, courage and brute strength, two RNLI lifeguards fought through heavy surf and high winds to reach surfers in peril
Days before the end of a busy lifeguard season, on the morning of...
Category: Articles
None (2)
Search for missing boys THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY at St Agnes was informed by Falmouth Coastguard at 1746 on Tuesday August 28, 1984, that a youth was cut off by the tide at Chapelporth. Maroons were immediately fired and by 1750 St...
Rudolf
HARTLEPOOL.—While a gale of wind was blowing from the N. with a high seaon the 16th May, the brig Rudolf, of Trelleborg, laden, with mining timber, for Hartlepool, was seen driving ashore towards Seaton beach. The No. 2 Lifeboat, Charles...
Two Rigid Inflatable Boats
D Class rescues man in shallow water and heavy breaking seasJohn Pearson, helmsman of Whitby's D class inshore lifeboat, has been awarded the RNLI's Bronze Medal for his seamanship and bravery following a service in conditions at the...
January (1)
JANUARY MEETING STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES. At 10.30 in the morning of the 9th of February, 1943, the 30- feet motor fishing boat Girl Lena, with a crew of four, was fishing off Stornoway. The sea was smooth, with a moderate north-west...
Category: Services