LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services by Shore-Boats (10)
BURRAFIRTH, LERWICK, SHETLANDS. At 1.52 P.M. on the 20th October, 1939, the coastguard asked the Lighthouse Shore Station at Burrafirth to send its boat to pick up the crew of the S.S. Sea Venture, of London, which had been sunk by enemy...
Category: Services
Make every moment count
If you like having serious fun on the water, the RNLI has a magazine, safety pack and DVD especially for you
Sailing, powerboating, windsurfing, angling, diving, kitesurfing, canoeing, riding your personal watercraft ......
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Balnagask
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 5.33 on the evening of the 19th December, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretaiy that red flares had been seen north of the coastguard look-out. The life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was...
Liberty
Dragging on to rocks AT 1704 on Sunday September 9, 1984, the honorary secretary of Ilfracombe lifeboat station was informed by Hartland Coastguard that the yacht Liberty needed immediate assistance as she was dragging her anchor close in to...
Dear reader
With the passing of the equinox, the temptation can grow to withdraw into the Autumnal gloom. But if you curl up for a good read with this issue of the Lifeboat,you will find yourself transported across land, sea and time.
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Cheerful
On the llth January it was reported to the honorary secretary that the local motor fishing boat Cheerful had not returned from the fishing grounds when expected. A fresh S. to S.S.E. gale was blowing at the time, with a very heavy sea, and...
Hazel
Montrose, Angus. At 9.15 on the morning of the llth October, 1961, the ex-coxswain of the life-boat, Mr. James Paton, heard his son, who is the present coxswain, calling by radio for the help of the life-boat. The son at the time was fishing...
Maria (1)
JULY 9TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, AND CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. While bound from Rochester to Maldon with a load of brick rubble the barge Maria, of Rochester, lost her sprit and was in difficulties about one and a half miles S.W. of the Swin...
An Aeroplane (127)
AUGUST 28TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. A British bombing aeroplane had come down in the sea about 11.30 in the morning, off Rhosneigr, Anglesey, twenty miles away on the other side of Caernarvon Bay, and at 12.36...
The Voluntary Spirit
Fortunately the age old advice 'never, ever volunteer' is as widely disregarded today as it was in Sir William Hillary's time. Richard Mann, the RNLI's Regions Manager, looks at some of the ways that the Institution is...
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