LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fine Service at Flamborough
A fine service was carried out by the Flamborough No. 1 Pulling and Sailing Life-boat, Forester, on April 28th, when she rescued the crew of sixteen of the Admiralty fuelling steamer Rosa. In the early hours of the morning, in a dense fog,...
Category: Services
Atlantic Watch: Ireland's Western Lifeboat Stations Arranmore Galway Bay and Valentia By Ray Kipling Public Relations Officer Rnli
'The wind was of hurricane force, with fierce squalls accompanied by snow and sleet and the seas were mountainous.
' ... 'It took two hours to board the lifeboat and three times the boarding boat was driven back...
Category: Articles
A Fourteen-Feet Flat-Bottomed Boat
Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—At 5.30 in the evening, on the 31st of May, 1950, in calm weather, the life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched for exercise with the honorary secretary, Mr. C. M.
Clifford Gibbons, and the district...
Bay Monarch
Cruiser foundered ON THE NIGHT of Saturday June 21, 1980, the motor cruiser Bay Monarch with four people on board ran aground on rocks and sank south of Swordale on the Eye Peninsula, Isle of Lewis.
The four survivors...
Orion
Life-boat O.N. 44-001 Life-boat O.N. 44-001 - At 12.10 p.m.
on 26th March, 1966, while on passage from Dover to Littlehampton, the lifeboat O.N. 44-001 came upon the yacht Orion of Newhaven which was burning distress flares...
Waiting for Rescue Part II By J D Sleightholme
In the second part of his examination of possible yachting predicaments, reproduced here by kind permission of Yachting Monthly, Des Sleightholme asks Coxswains Dave Kennett of Yarmouth, loW, Griff Jones of Porthdirllaen and Ian Johnson of...
Category: Articles
Night Launch to Capsized Dinghy
ABOUT 10.45 on the night of Thursday, the 13th of December, 1962, the motor boat Zephyr, with Mr. John Smith the owner, who is a member of the Long- hope life-boat crew, and William Mowat on board, returned to her moorings at North Bay,...
Category: Services
Phase II and Raven
On service 11 hours ON MONDAY, MAY 31, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Walmer lifeboat station that a cabin cruiser had broken down in a position some three to four miles south east of the lifeboat station; she was drifting...
St. Pierre Eglise
Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 10.-12 on the night of the 24th of March, 1953, the Ramsey coastguard rang up to say that a vessel south of Douglas Head was blowing short blasts on its siren, and at eleven o'clock the Douglas Head Lighthouse...
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DEER RESCUED Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 7.59 a.m. on Tuesday, the 25th May, 1965, the police informed the honorary secretary that a deer which was being chased by them had jumped from the pier and was swimming strongly to the north-east...