LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cariad
TOW FOR YACHT WITH TWO ABOARD Ilfracombe, Devon. At 11.50 on the night of the 20th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was flashing sos off Highveer Point, Lynmouth. There was a moderate breeze...
Cythara
Among rocks A YACHT firing red flares near Green Island was reported by Police HQ at 0326 on Saturday September 3, 1983, to the deputy assistant harbour master at St Helier, who is also deputy launching authority of St Helier lifeboat...
Welcome
After an action-packed summer on the water, autumn finds us in a reflective mood
As we sent Lifeboat to print, the sun had been baking the UK and Ireland for weeks. And we weren’t complaining! But warm weather draws crowds...
Category: Articles
Critical choice
With his dive buddy unconscious on the seabed, Luke Corkill faced a split-second decision: should he risk the bends by bringing her up fast, or face handing a body over to RNLI crews?
Dive...
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Shoreline
TO MAKE A CHANGE from the usual Shoreline page, I have asked Linda Grainger, one of my assistants, to write about the work of herself and her colleagues.
First of all, however, I am pleased to announce that RNLB Shoreline...
Category: Articles
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Climber falls THREE YOUTHS WERE CLIMBING down the cliff at Wylfa Headland on Wednesday, April 13, when a peg pulled out of the cliff and one of the boys fell about 35 feet into the sea, striking the cliff face and a submerged rock on his way...
March (1)
MARCH MEETING SANDAY, ORKNEYS. On the morning of the 10th December, 1940, flares were seen by the coastguard from the Holms of Ire, where the trawler Alex Hastie, of Aberdeen, had gone ashore, with a crew of ten aboard.
A...
Category: Services
Excel
ILFRACOMBE.—On the 27th May, 1894, the coastguard reported to the coxswain of the Life-boat that a dismasted vessel was lying off Heale Bay, nearly half a mile from the point. A moderate breeze was blowing from N.N.W., the weather was...
The S.S. Rowan
REDCAR.—The Life-boat Brothers was launched at 12.45 A.M. on the 14th April, it having been reported that a steamer was stranded on the West Eoek.
The wind was blowing a light breeze from the W., but a strong sea was...
A Small Rowing Boat
During a strong W.S.W. breeze with heavy sea on the 12th August, a man put off in a small rowing-boat, but got into diffi- culties, and was seen drifting with the tide rapidly towards the Gorton Sands.
His signals of...