LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wanda
Howth, Co. Dublin - At 9.15 p.m.
on 24th May, 1966, a fire on a fishing trawler, which looked like a signal fire to attract attention, was noticed. The lifeboat A.M.T. was launched at 9.30 in a southerly wind and a smooth...
Arctic Crusader
Broken adrift THE STATION HONORARY SECRETARY of Thurso was informed by Wick Coastguard at 2105 on Tuesday November 16 1982, that the trawler Arctic Crusader had broken adrift in Scrabster Harbour, close by the lifeboat station, and he was...
Eustace
MARGATE.—While the wind was blowing from W.byN. with almost hurricane force, accompanied by a very heavy sea and terrific hail squalls, on the 27th January, the Coastguard reported flares in the Gore Channel. The crew of the Life-boat Civil...
The S.S. Altyre
Shortly after midnight on the 17th-18th January signals of distress were seen burning in the direction of the South Barber Sands.
As soon as it was possible the No. 1 boat Covent Garden was launched and found the S.S....
Matam II
French yachtsmen saved SECOND COXSWAIN Peter Bisson was in command when St Peter Port's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Sir William Arnold, slipped her moorings at 0950 on the morning of Sunday August 11, 1985. A report had been received from...
An Aeroplane (1)
23rd April.
An aeroplane fell into the sea, but the services of the life-boat were not required.—Rewards, £6 6s. (See also Shoreboat Services, page 115.).
Four Men Rescued from French Trawler
AT 5.50 a.m. on 2yth October, 1963, Valentia radio station informed the honorary secretary of the Youghal life- boat station, Commander B. Arbuth- not, that the French trawler Fee des Ondes was ashore in Youghal Bay. The position given,...
Category: Services
Saving lives in Bangladesh
An RNLI team travelled to Bangladesh in March to help set up the country’s first lifesaving club. And, on 16 April, club member Mohammed Abdul Sukkur saved his first life, rescuing a drowning tourist from a rip...
Category: Articles
New Crew for Looe
Childhood friends John Crabb and Verity Pope, both aged 17, have recently joined the crew at Looe inshore lifeboat station, in Cornwall.
They are both continuing family traditions: John's elder brother Ben is a crew... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Galway Bay.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 12th of January, 1956, the local doctor asked if the life- boat would take to the mainland a man who had been seriously injured and needed hospital treatment. As there was no other...