LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Speed Boat
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
Why Put Out More Flags?
DURING the coming holiday months many people will find themselves con- fronted at seaside resorts and elsewhere with flag sellers for the Royal National Life-boat Institution. When putting a coin into a box they may well ask them- selves:...
Category: Articles
Wardour
Islay, Inner Hebrides.—On the morn- ing of the 24th of August, 1949, the tide and weather being suitable, the life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth was beached at seven o'clock for cleaning and paintingher bottom. At 9.40 the Kilchoman...
Monte Gurugu (1)
Appledore, Clovelly, and Df racombe, Devon.
—On the 13th of November, 1949, all three life-boats went to the help of the Spanish steamer Monte Gurugu, which was foundering at the entrance to the Bristol Channel, and rescued...
Peak Performance:
Peak performance: On the longest day in June last year Richard Price, a new crew member at Fleetwood lifeboat station, led a team of 36 people up to Scotland for the start of a three peak marathon. The team climbed Ben Nevis, (some of them... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Yorkshire Hosts:
Yorkshire hosts: Whitby's 44ft Waveney class escorts two Scottish lifeboats out of Whitby harbour on their journey north. The two visitors are the new 47ft Tyne class, Lord Saltoun, bound for Longhope and the 54ft Arun, City of Bradford... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Category: Advertisement
Wear
WHITBY.—At about 5.30 P.M., on the 3rd of May, the sloop Wear, of Sunderland, bound from Hartlepool for Walcott with coal, while attempting to enter the harbonr in a very heavy sea, missed the entrance, became unmanageable, drifted into the...
Trustful and a Dinghy
ENGINE FAILURE T At 4.53 p.m. on igth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two people were trying to row ashore from a motor fishing vessel anchored five miles south-south-east of Hastings. The honorary secretary...
Posthumous Awards
Early this year at a private ceremony held at Longhope, Orkney, posthumous awards for gallantry were presented by The Duke of Atholl, Convenor of the Scottish Life-boat Council, and a member of the Committee of Management of the Royal...
Category: Awards