LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Northern Exposure
On a squally November night, time was rapidly running out for a fisherman in the water in Fraserburgh Harbour
It was quick thinking, forward planning and great teamwork by the local lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Shoreline
The Renault 5 Shoreline Drive Turn to the inside back cover for details of the exciting competition in which you can win a brand new Renault 5. Anyone can enter, all you have to do is find a new Shoreline member - there must be someone you...
Category: Articles
A Sailing Dinghies and Segel
DINGHIES IN TROUBLE At 11.50 a.m. on 7th June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that three sailing dinghies had capsized seaward of the harbour and, with about 20 dinghies in the area, the safety boat escorting them would be...
None (1)
Man clinging to cliff A MAN CUT OFF by the tide at Saltwick Nab was reported to the honorary secretary of Whitby lifeboat station by the Coastguard at 1805 on Friday, July 25, 1975. It was high water and in normal circumstances, with a...
Saluto
An exception- ally heavy gale visited the south-west part of England on the 13th December, and during the height of the gale the Life-boat Elizabeth and Blanche was called out to go to the help of a sailing- ship in distress in the bay. The...
RESCUE
Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year. Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the following pages for more reports:
6 SKERRIES | PAGE 10
7 PORTRUSH | PAGE...
Category: Articles
Henley-On-Thames
Only RNLI supporters could find a way of feeding the swans and ducks on the Thames and collecting money for lifeboats simultaneously.
At Henley-on-Thames the branch has arranged to fill this bin with unsold loaves, kindly... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Swift and Julia
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—On the afternoon of the 8th December two flags of distress were observed in Derbyhaven Bay during a gale from the W.S.W. The Hope Life-boat was launched at about 3.30 and brought ashore the crew, consisting of five...
Elephant
The tubular life-boat was likewise the means of rendering good service to another shipwrecked crew on the 19th October.
During the previous night a very severe gale had swept over Liverpool and its neigh- bourhood, and...
What and Where
What and Where The lifeboat fleet of the RNL9 If s back again by popular demand! The following is a print-out from LINCS, the RNLI's Lifeboat integrated Computer System, and is correct as of October 1999.
Lifeboats are...
Category: Articles