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Stretched to breaking point

Date: Summer 2011

Volume: 61

Issue: 596 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2011

In near gale force winds, a large crabbing boat lost engine power and was drifting close to an offshore gas rig. Unable to anchor, due to underwater pipelines, she needed a tow to safety

Just...

Category: Articles

Porthcawl to Fishguard

Date: Winter 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 555

It would have been easy to prolong our stay at St Donat's Castle and learn more of the work of the world famous United World College of the Atlantic and its multinational student population, but time and the seasons are moving on and, if...

Category: Articles

Some Special Gifts

Date: February 1927

Volume: 26

Issue: 289

H.M. THE KING and ELM. The Queen both seat special gifts in November last to show their interest in the pro- gress of the Motor Life-boat Scheme.

* * * * The 1st Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders have sent...

Category: Donations

None

Date: Spring 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 572

The turning of the tide Three men were enjoying a day's angling at Aberporth when they were caught out by the biggest tide of the year. Within moments the trio were stranded on rocks, 100m from the shore ^^Despite the bad weather, many...

Brett

Date: June 1969

Volume: 41

Issue: 428

Margate, Kent - At 2.35 p.m. on 31st October, 1968, a flare was sighted by the honorary secretary and the coxswain about a haJf mile north east of Margate jetty. The lifeboat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) with her crew already on...

February (1)

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

FEBRUARY MEETING IN  ERKEITHING, FIFESHIRE. On the afternoon of the 9th January, 1940, the S.S.

Elizabeth Bromley was taken from harbour to an anchorage four hundred yards out, in readiness to sail in the morning. The...

Category: Services

Royal National Lifeboat Institution Annual Presentation

Date: Spring 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 524

blLVhK MkUALb FOR GALLENTRY Coxswain Peter Bisson, St Peter Port - 29 August 1992 Coxswain Bisson and his crew braved force 9 winds and 15-20ft seas to snatch six yachtsmen to safety from the Sena Sioria. During the rescue the yacht's...

Category: Awards

Below: Brighton Crew In Their Atlantic 75 Thelma Glossop

Date: Spring 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 556

Below: Brighton crew in their Atlantic 75 Thelma Glossop and local firemen come to the aid of the pleasure craft Ocean Spirit. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Progress

Date: November 1904

Volume: 19

Issue: 214

NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.—On the 29th March the Coxswain of the Life-boat Michael Henry was called at 3.50 A.M.

by the harbour watchman, who reported that a vessel was in distress at the mouth of the harbour. The Life-boat was...

Floating Homes

Date: Autumn 1997

Volume: 56

Issue: 542

'One man can launch the Atlantic in less than a minute' 'Most of our work here is out-and-grab stuff,' said Atlantic Helmsman Richard Pearce as we looked at the floating boathouse at his station in Brighton Marina, 'and...

Category: Articles