LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Queen
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—At about 12.15 P.M., on the 3rd August, the fishing smack Queen, of Douglas, was observed making for the harbour, and in attempting to enter she struck on the bar and stranded opposite the Life-boat House. As a moderate...
H.M. Destroyer Javelin
Redcar, Yorskhire.—22nd October, 1939. Information had been re- ceived through the coastguard from the senior naval officer at Newcastle that there had been a collision off Maske, one of the vessels being H.M.
Destroyer...
The Barrels Lightvessel
Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 9.30 a.m.
on i6th May, 1965, the Irish Lights Office asked the honorary secretary for the use of the life-boat to take a sick man off the Barrels lightvessel. There was a light southerly breeze and...
A Sailboard
Boy helps save windsurfer Eleven-year-old Ryan Gratton was out fishing with his grandfather on 4 August when they spotted a windsurfer in difficulty. From their boat, Ryan's grandfather helped the windsurfer and Ryan radioed Dover...
A Great Seaman
THE life of Sir Henry Oliver, most appropriately called A Great Seaman and written by Sir William James (H. F. and G. Witherby, 18,9.), is a fascinating book, full of anecdotes of an adventurous career, mostly taken from his own notes and...
Category: Articles
Helicopter Rescue British Airways Style By J D Ferguson
THE ADVENT OF NORTH SEA OIL has wrought tremendous changes in almost every sphere among the various areas involved. None has been so significantly affected as that of the sea rescue services, this being amply reflected in the RNLI's...
Category: Articles
‘ YOU NEVER THINK IT’LL HAPPEN TO YOU’
Equipment failure sounds benign. But when it’s a broken mast that causes a capsize, it can turn an afternoon on the water into a serious situation – very quickly
Getting ready for an evening shift, Police Officer and Crew...
Category: Articles
A Surfboard
Lone surfer saved in_near gale Eastbourne's D class inflatable saved the life of a surfer on 21 June 1997 in conditions which swamped the lifeboat when launching, threw a crew member overboard and needed the all-weather lifeboat to...
The S.S. Baron Douglas, the S.S. Korenica and Rumania (1)
Hastings, and Eastbourne, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At three o'clock in the morning of the 14th of June, 1952, the S.S. Baron Douglas, of Ardrossan, bound for London from Macoris with a cargo of sugar, wirelessed that she had been...
Index to Advertisers
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Cogswell & Harrison Ltd Evett Sailwear Ltd Fairey Marine Ltd Functional Clothing Ltd.
David Jolly (Tiller Master) Mermaid Marine Engines Ltd Neco Marine Ltd Old England RNLI...
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