LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Book Reviews
Fire Aboard by FRANK RUSHBROOK (The Technical Press, 1961) is a most comprehensive work by a man who first became a fireman in 1938 and has since held a number of responsible posts concerned with the task of fire...
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Loch Eribol
DOCTOR'S ASSISTANCE Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 3.45 p.m. on i8th March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the trawler Loch Eribol of Hull had a badly injured man on board. Her position was then 23 miles east of...
Cariad Y Mor, Heron
Margate, Kent - At 3.57 p.m. on 25th June, 1967, it was reported that a yacht had capsized half a mile north of Margate pier. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. u) was launched shortly afterhigh water at 4.10 in a light north...
Kabalo and Flandres
FEBRUARY 12TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 7.32 A.M. the Deal coastguard reported that a collision had occurred near the Fork Buoy.
A fresh southerly wind was blowing, with amoderate sea. It was snowing. The motor life-boat Charles...
Afon Gwili
DECEMBER 17TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 8.40 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel ashore on the Brake Sands and asked that the life-boat should be launched immediately.
A south-west gale was blowing, with a rough sea....
A Boston Aeroplane's Dinghy
JUNE 27TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At 12.7.P.M. the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea off Chapel, and the motor lifeboat Anne Allen was launched at 12.37 P.M.
A light N.E...
FLASH FICTION
Instead of beating yourself up about not writing that novel, tell a shorter story with the help of RNLI Helm and Writer Eleanor Hooker. You might even get published ...
Flash fiction has one rule: stick to the word count....
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The Kaliningrad-Registered Factory Trawler Borodinskoye Polye
Just eight days later Soldian was once again at sea on service to another factory ship in severe weather. At 2310 on Wednesday 17 November the Kaliningrad-registered factory trawler Borodinskoye Polye went ashore on the Unicorn reef in the...
Swanage Centenary
'When we're needed—we're needed! And when we're needed, we'll be there!' THESE WORDS of a Swanage coxswain, logged in the station history, are a promise this little Dorset town has been proud to fulfil. Opening the...
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The S.S. Hilary
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 1.22 in the morning of 9th April, 1939, the coastguard reported that the 7,000-tons s.s.
Hilary, of Liverpool, was ashore at Carmel Head. She was homeward bound from Brazil to Liverpool with general...