LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gika
Search and rescue A YACHT IN DISTRESS somewhere to the south west of South Stack Light was reported to the honorary secretary of Holyhead lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 0908 on Sunday September 4, 1977; her exact position was not known...
Teens adrift
12 July: Four teenagers and an adult found themselves powerless when their angling boat's engine failed. They were drifting towards rocks near Ardnamurchan Point, the most westerly part of the British...
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Life cycle
Each Summer, Londoners Nick Pleydell-Bouverie and Rad Hart-George swap their suits for cyclists’ Lycra and head off on the next stage of their RNLI Tour of Britain
The ambitious idea was...
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A Motor Boat (1)
TWO LIFE-BOATS IN ALL-NIGHT SEARCH Torbay, and Exmouth, Devon. At 10.44 on the night of the 16th August, 1962, the Brixham coastguard passed on a report from a boat-owner, whose son had put out in a 20-foot motor boat three hours earlier to...
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PRINCESS VICTORIA
Our feature on the Princess Victoria disaster in the spring issue evoked some memories for readers:
Pamela Miley writes:
Your article on the Princess Victoria brought back memories...
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Bottom, Opposite: Tower Lifeboat Station Moved to Lifeboat Pier Earlier This Year
Bottom, opposite: Tower lifeboat station moved to Lifeboat Pier earlier this year thanks to funding from the Civil Service Lifeboat Fund, Northwood Golf Club, Pettswood fundraising branch, the Albert Hunt Charitable Trust and legacies from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
William and Martha (1)
Whitby, Yorkshire - At 8.50 a.m. on 24th May, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a heavy swell was building up on the bar and that at least one of the smaller cobles was at sea.
The life-boat Mary Ann...
Lone Star
At midday on the 27th January some of the life-boat crew saw a man in a canoe making his way down channel. A squally N.W.
breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. ' Although the man appeared to be in no need of...
February (1)
LYBSTER, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. At 10 o’clock in the morning of the 4th of December, 1945, three men in the motor fishing boat Seaflower, of Wick, had completed hauling their lobster creels, when their boat shipped a sea which stopped the engine....
Category: Services
Book Corner
0 Rage of Sand: The Story of the Men who Built their Own Seaside Town (Ernest Benn, £2.25) is by Gabriel Harrison, a member of the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I., and is a very readable account of the growth of St.
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