LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An R.A.F. Pinnace
OCTOBER 10TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. An R.A.F. pinnace had foundered and her crew had taken to their small boat, but they were rescued by H.M.S. Lochiel a few minutes before the arrival of the life-boat. - Rewards, £10 9s. 6d..<...
Enfant de Bretagne
Aground on rocks AT 0205 ON SUNDAY, February 13, the honorary secretary of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, was requested by St Mary's Coastguard to launch to the aid of a French fishing vessel aground on rocks near Bishop Rock Lighthouse...
People and profit
Christmas is a time when many people choose to support the RNLI by buying cards and gifts from the charity – but what makes these purchases different?
You might be familiar with the RNLI's mail order catalogue, but did...
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Contents
contents neWs including 8 Old and new generation lifeboats, boathouses – and crew 9 A readers’ offer for all who love The Sea 10 Artistry in Cornwall and Whitby 12 Lifesaving world championships to boost volunteering rescue 4 iNSight A...
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Beaulieu
Margate, Kent.—At 1.15 i n the afternoon of the 5th of October, 1948, a tug with a yacht in tow was seen five miles to the northward, making little headway, and at 2.30 the coastguard telephoned that she appeared to have broken down and was...
Helicopters
In the House of Commons in April the Secretary of State for Defence was asked how many times in the last three years the helicopter then at Manston, Kent, had been used to assist in sea rescue operations, and how many people had been rescued...
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Noordkaap
Teesmouth, Yorkshire—At 11.15 on the night of the 20th of July, 1957, the South Gare coastguard telephoned that a small coaster was ashore in the river near Redcar wharf. It was learnt later that the coaster was aground by her stern and that...
Coniston
Signals of distress were observed from the schooner Coniston, of Barrow, at about 9.30 A.M.
on the 18th March, when the vessel was lying at anchor off Skerries Harbour.
The coxswain of the Life-boat...
H.M.S. Sturdy
OCTOBER 30TH. - TOBERMORY, ISLE OF MULL. H.M.S. Sturdy, a patrol vessel, was reported to have gone ashore on the west side of Tiree. The life-boat searched in a very rough sea, with the wind at hurricane force, but she could find nothing,...
H.M. Trawler Avanturine (1)
NOVEMBER 24TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 4.50 in the morning a message was received at Shoreham Harbour from the coastguard that H.M. Trawler Avanturine, which had been left at anchor by the Newhaven life-boat off Newhaven, as described...