LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

APPENDICITIS Galway Bay. At 6.0 p.m. on 3rd January, 1965, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that he had a patient with appendicitis requiring hospital treatment and had failed to obtain a boat for the journey to the...

CLARKE CHAPMAN MARINE A U X I L I A R I E S FOR LIFE-BOAT STATIONS This illustrates one of our electrically driven winches as supplied to the Tynemouth Lifeboat Station for hauling up the life-boat.

Many other winches of...

Lifeboat Heroes, the RNLI documentary shown on the History channel last April, is now available on DVD.

Ben Fogle tells the RNLI story in the main feature. The DVD also includes special extras, such as dramatic real-life...

CAISTER, NORFOLK.—At 1.40 A.M. on the 5th of January, flares were seen on the Barber Sand during a fresh breeze from S.S.W. and a moderate sea. A yawl having been promptly launched, and proceeded to the sand, found the dandy Tyro, of London,...

In a mode- rate westerly breeze with a growing sea on the evening of the 2nd September, the services of the Life-boat were called for to assist two of the fishing cobles belonging to Staithes. A telegram from Staithes stated that the boats...

On the 21st May it was reported that a schooner, which proved to be the Lapwing, of Arklow, bound from Dublin for Wexford with a cargo of maize, was at anchor off the bar in a sinking condition, having struck on the Blackwater Bank.

ALDEBURGH.—On the morning of the 1st November the coastguard on duty reported that guns were being fired and signal flags shown on board a vessel aground on the Shipwash Sands. A strong N.W. breeze was blowing, theTe was a moderately rough...

During the morning of the 2nd February a moderate N. breeze was blowing with a very heavy sea running. Several return- ing fishing boats only succeeded in landing at great risk, and two were nearly capsized. The No. 1 Pulling and Sailing...