LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
CAR TROUBLE
Stranded in rising water while trying to fetch her dog, Caroline could only call 999 and hope that help would make it in time
‘What could it be?’ That’s always the first thought Silloth lifeboat Crew Member Andrew Stanley...
Category: Articles
Photos
THE RNLI was the beneficiary of the 1983 Newmarket Charity Race Day on Saturday June 25 when just over £13,500 was raised for the lifeboats. Although the morning began dull and overcast, by midday the cloud had dispersed and the sun... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shoreline
Name change response In the Spring issue we posed the question, 'What's in a name?' and invited members to think up alternative names for Shoreline.
The response was most encouraging, with the editor's...
Category: Articles
Dillwyn
KINGSDOWNE.—On the 24th January, at 9.30 A.M., when blowing hard from W.S.W., the Life-boat Sabrina went out to the brig Dillwyn, of Swansea, ashore on the South Goodwin Sands. The sea was washing the brig fore and aft, and as the Life-boat...
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South Eastern Division Injured climber SWANAGE COASTGUARD requested the launch of Swanage lifeboat at 1710 on Saturday June 16, 1979, to go to the help of a seriously injured cliff climber at Ragged Rocks, some quarter of a mile west of...
Stardust
Out-of-control casualty stopped by deliberately fouling propeller Wick lifeboat was involved in an unusual, hazardous and tragic service on 15/16 May 1993 when a helicopter spotted a vessel going round in circles at full power some 14 miles...
March Sod
Three saved as trawler is destroyedThe coastline west of Port Oriel, on the east coast of Ireland, is extremely wild, with treacherous rocks to catch out the unwary sailor. So when the Clogher Head lifeboat was called out to a fishing...
Here and There
BRISTOW HELICOPTERS have given to Aberdeen's 54' Arun BP Forties an AM VHP (air band) Pye Westminster radio, which allows direct communication between lifeboat and aircraft; the cheque for £350 was presented to Coxswain Albert...
Category: Articles
Memorial Life-Boats
WHAT monument can mourners rear To those whose umnark'd graves Lie far from all they held most dear, Fathoms below the waves ? No stately pile of sculptured stone Should tell their modest worth, No proud heraldic shield make known The...
Category: Poetry