LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lugano
— On the 26th April a vessel was observed on fire off Hastings, and the Life-boat Charles Arkoll was launched to render assistance if necessary. The vessel proved to be the steamer Lugano of Hamburg, home- ward bound from Baltimore with a...
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Walkers saved from submerged rockThe skilled actions, in difficult conditions, of helmsman Ronnie Davies, 43, of the Borth lifeboat, saved the lives of two walkers, trapped on a sea-battered rock beneath Borth Head.
At 1920...
A Fishing Boat
Sea trials interrupted to rescue seriously ill fishermanThe RNL) knows how to get the maximum benefit from its contractors. DML Ltd, the Plymouth-based dockyard, are responsible for building and repairing some of the all-weather lifeboats....
Snaefell
FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.—At 8 P.M. on the 4th February the Life-boat Sob Newbon was launched, intelligence having been received from the coastguard that a vessel was aground on the Black Rock. A moderate wind was blowing from E.N.E., and there...
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In the early afternoon of 18 October 2001, 10 year old Arron McLauchlan was understandably engrossed watching seals on the rocks near Buchaness lighthouse, 1.5km south of Peterhead. But when he realised that the incoming tide had cut him off...
Amorel
SKIPPER HELPLESS WITH UNCONSCIOUS CREW Ramsgate, Kent.—-While returning from the fishing grounds early in the morning of the 20th of April, 1947, two members of the crew of three of the fishing boat Amorel, of Ramsgate, were overcome by...
A Motor Launch and Foxfield
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 27th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor launch was being towed by the steamer Foxfield, and asked if the life-boat could meet the vessels off...
Letters
Whitby pulling lifeboat The photograph of Whitby pulling lifeboat Robert and Ellen Robson published in the autumn issue of THE LIFEBOAT made me wonder whether she was the one that started my interest in the lifeboat service in 1919.
Category: Correspondence
Sea Fox (1)
Search success AT 1820 ON FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1987, Tyne Tees Coastguards were alerted by the mother of one of two men aboard the Hartlepool-based fishing boat Sea Fox that the vessel was six hours overdue at the east coast...
Feature In Good Faith
'Sometimes, with other charities, you don't know where your money is going. With the RNLI, 1 know exactly what is happening and where/ Phyl Cleare, lifeboat donorTrust and confidence are essential when companies are persuading the...
Category: Articles