LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annie
About 2 p M., on the 8th February, the pilot coble Annie, of Redcar, which had gone out in the morning to a steamer, but had failed to reach her on account of the strong N.W. gale and heavy sea, was seen off Redcar, beyond the breakers, with...
Torrish
TOW FOR YACHT IN STRONG GALE Anstruther, Fife. At 5.47 on the morning of the 24th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was drifting two miles south-east-by-south from Fifeness.
The...
Erlo Hills
Fourteen rescued A TRAWLER, Erlo Hills, ashore north west of the Mull of Kintyre, Argyllshire, was reported by Clyde Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Campbeltown lifeboat station at 0655 on Friday October 2, 1981. Maroons were fired...
RNLI through a lens
Howard Evans, a fundraiser from Weston-super-Mare, is the 2009 RNLI Photographer of the Year. His photo, shown on the front cover, was taken at the station’s open day and demonstrates the cruel conditions under which lifeboat crew often find...
Category: Articles
Awards for Selsey and Sheringham Coxswains
COXSWAIN DOUGLAS GRANT, of Selsey, and Coxswain Henry West, of Sheringham, have become the first two members of life-boat crews to receive gifts from the James Michael Bower Endowment Fund.
This fund was established in 1955...
Category: Awards
Co-Operation Keynote
The 15th International Lifeboat Conference took place at La Coruna, Spain in June this year. The RNLI was represented and, here, Public Relations Officer EDWARD WAKE-WALKER reports on the continuing dialogue between lifeboat societies from...
Category: Meetings
Dolphin friendly
Falmouth’s inshore lifeboat crew was involved in a large and unusual rescue operation on 9 June when a pod of dolphins became stranded in Porth Creek on the Percuil River. When the lifeboat arrived on scene, more than 20 had already died,...
Category: Articles
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Plymouth, Devon. At 12.10 on the afternoon of the 21st of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police had asked if the life-boat could take off a family of five who were stranded on Renney rocks off Heybrook...
A Meteor Aeroplane (3)
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Aberyst- wyth, Cardiganshire, Barmouth, Meri- onethshire, and Pwllheli, Caernarvon- shire.
At 3.19 in the afternoon of the 5th of May, 1952, the Fishguard coast- guard telephoned to the Fishguard...
Fishing Cobles (1)
On the 12th December fourteen of the fishing cobles belonging to Newbiggin proceeded in the early morning to the fishing grounds. Shortly after 9.30 A.M.
a strong breeze from the west sprang up and increased to a strong...