LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Embrace, of Staithes
Runswick, Yorkshire - At 12.12 p.m.
on yth November, 1966, concern was felt for the fishing coble Embrace, of Staithes, as it was one hour after high water and a heavy inshore swell was making the harbour mouth a hazard....
Fishing Boats
Early on the morning of the 3rd February the fishing fleet went to sea in fine weather, but about 9 A.M. the sea got up sud- denly and made the approach to the harbour very dangerous for small craft. Most of the boats had returned by then,...
Port Talbot (Aberavon Beach)
Port Talbot (Aberavon Beach) crew and station officials are photographed with their new D class inflatable lifeboat on Saturday March 24, the day she was officially handed over. The lifeboat was the gift of Port Talbot Round Table 335 and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Rubber Dinghy (2)
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 5.8 in the evening, on the 28th of June, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a rubber dinghy was in distress off North Shore.
At 5.34 the life-boat Anne Allen was launched in a choppy sea with a...
News and Views
The Annual Meetings The RNLI's Annual General Meeting and Annual Presentation of Awards for 1997 will again take place in the Barbican Hall, London.
The meetings will be held on Thursday 15 May, the AGM at 1130 and the...
Category: Articles
A Yacht, Two Catamarans, a Dinghy, a Diving Boat and a Speed Boat
Exercise turns into busy day for City of Plymouth Plymouth - South West Division Plymouth's new Arun class City of Plymouth took part in no less than seven rescues on Sunday, 22 May 1988, when a sudden increase in wind strength to around...
Wendy
Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire.— At 8.50 on the evening of the 17th of June, 1951, the life-boat motor mec- hanic reported that he had seen a yacht, apparently in distress, on the north side of the River Ribble. At 9.5 he said the yacht was...
Breadwinner
On the llth December, during a moderate south- west gale with a heavy sea, the coast- guard reported that a vessel was burning flares opposite the Life-boat station.
The Life-boat John Burch was launched, and, on arrival,...
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Stromness, Orkneys.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 17th of January, 1955, news reached the life-boat station that food was short in the Quoyloo district, and that supplies could not be taken overland as the roads were blocked by...
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Atlantic's engines swamped as she tries to rescue trapped lifeguard Conditions were so bad on the East Coast of Britain on 29 August that Cullercoats' Atlantic 21 was involved in a medal-winning service within the confines of the...