LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The British Airways Helicopter G-BEON
Crashed helicopter FALMOUTH COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of St Mary's lifeboat station. Isles of Scilly, at 1250 on Saturday July 16. 1983, that the British Airways helicopter G-BEON was overdue at St Mary's...
IRB Launches (1)
SOUTH-EASTERN DISTRICT Rescues by IRBs in April were undertaken by the following stations: Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 11.54 a.m. on i8th April, 1966, while the IRB was being exercised with the district inspector on board, the crew were...
Category: Services
High seas, low fuel
3 April: A father and son were bringing their yacht from Troon to Whitehaven when they ran out of fuel in a force 9, 12 miles from their destination. Workington’s Tyne class lifeboat launched at 4.45pm and headed...
Category: Articles
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the October, November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the October, November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.
EOBIN HOOD'S BAY, YORKSHIRE.— On 3rd September the ex-Coxswain of the Life-boat and three...
Category: Services
Bispham
ABERSOCH.—At 1.30 A.M. on the 23rd January the Life - boat Oldham waslaunched, signal - rockets having been fired from the direction of St. TudwelFs Island. The wind was blowing a moderate gale from E.N.E., with snow squalls and very cold...
Religious Services
RELIGIOUS ceremonies associated with the Life-boat Service have been held in recent months in Bolton. Hoylake, New Brighton, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey in the north- west district of England; Bude, Clo- velly, Land's End...
Category: Articles
Two Canoes
RESCUES FROM CAPSIZED CANOES Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 16th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two canoes, with two men in each, had overturned off Amroth...
Festina-Lente
Yacht among rocks THE NORWEGIAN YACHT Festina-Lente reported by VHP radio at 1333 on Tuesday December 14, 1982, that her engine and steering gear had failed; she was one mile south of St Helier Harbour entrance.
The yacht...
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COXSWAIN DIVES FOR BOY IN a life-saving service at St. Ives, Cornwall, on 26th July, 1972, Coxswain Thomas Cocking, who had been taken to the scene by motor launch ahead of the ILB, dived overboard to assist a boy who was in...
Naming Ceremonies In Scotland
Two life-boats were named in Scotland in July, 1950, at St. Abbs and Buckie.
They are both gifts from Glasgow.
St. Abbs The new St. Abbs boat has been built out of a legacy from the late...
Category: Inaugurations