LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
B.S. Colling
Owing to bad weather, the only fishing boat to put to sea on the morning of the 13th January was the B.S. Colling, with a crew of three. She did not return when expected, and, as the sea was getting worse, anxiety was felt for her safety.<...
Olveaga
HILBRE ISLAND.—A fisherman, observing a large steamer stranded on the East Hoyle Bank, on the morning of the 27th October, reported the circumstance,circumstance, and at 8.24 the Life-boat Admiral Biggs was launched. A moderate gale was...
Hayling Island -- South Division
Hayling Island, on the coast of East Hampshire and connected to the mainland by a road bridge, has Portsmouth to its west, Chichester Harbour to the east and the English Channel on it's southern shores.
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Category: Photographs
MOB Guardian
European subsidies for MOB Guardian, the RNLI-developed fishing safety system, will cease from March. Therefore, we have decided to end production of MOB Guardian, but will continue to support the system for at least another 5...
Category: Articles
Fiducia
Caister, Norfolk.—At 5.50 on the morning of the 21st of July. 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Fiducia, of Rotterdam, was ashore on the mainland at Waxham, but as the weather was calm she did not need help. The Fiducia...
Pippa
Dungeness, Kent. At 2.25 on the morning of the 17th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a German ship was standing by a British yacht, which had burnt red flares and had asked for the help of the life-boat. At...
That sinking feeling
MACDUFF AND BUCKIE | 21 JUNE
A lone skipper triggered an early morning rescue on Father’s Day after snagging a propeller and finding that his vessel had been holed. The boat – a decommissioned trawler...
Category: Articles
Head over hooves
TRAMORE | 16 NOVEMBER
Volunteers from Tramore RNLI went to the rescue of a bull stranded on a rocky ledge after it fell from a clifftop into the sea. With the animal secured by rope, and a...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremonies - continued from page 55
Relief Fleet - Atlantic 75 Susan PeacockWednesday 21 April 1993 saw the naming of the first of a new inshore lifeboat design, the Atlantic 75. Developed from the highly successful Atlantic 21 which has been in operation since 1972, the name...
Category: Annual Reports
The wreck of the Hindlea
The scars left by the wreck of the Royal Charter run deep among local people. The storm and the appalling loss of life have become a grim legend and on the centenary of the shipwreck in October 1959 a service of remembrance was held at...
Category: Articles