LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
MBE for fundraiser
Last issue we reported on eight RNLI staff and volunteers who were honoured by HM The Queen in the 2015 New Year Honours list. We thought we’d captured them all, but unfortunately one slipped through the net: Chris Fonteyn MBE JP. Chris was...
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The Motor Fishing Coble Hilda
DECEMBER 21ST. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At about 3.25 P.M. the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat coxswain that the motor fishing coble Hilda, of Scarborough, was in distress. A strong southerly wind was blowing, with a...
PARAGLIDER CRASH
ABERYSTWYTH | 15 MAY
A paraglider, fearing that his flying partner had crashed into some cliffs, called 999. The crew of RNLI Aberystwyth's inshore rescue boat launched quickly, soon joined by the larger Atlantic 85 lifeboat....
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Safe Return
SEPTEMBER 29TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK. At 8.30 P . M . the owner of the Skibbereen motor fishing boat Safe Return reported that his boat, with a crew of three, was five hours overdue, and the motor lifeboat Shamrock was launched at 9.5 P.M....
Henry Harvey
On the 25th March the Life-boat was launched at 8.40 P.M., and proceeded to the assistance of the brigantine Henry Harvey, of Hayle, bound from Runcorn for Lelant with coal, which while endeavouring to make the harbour at Penzance in a...
Express
SEATON CAREW.—Eockete and flares having been seen on the Longscar Bocks during an E. wind, a strong sea, and foggy weather on the 21st October, the Job Hindley Life-boat was launched at 7 P.M., proceeded in the direction in which the signals...
Charlie Blackwood
DONNANOOK, LINCOLNSHIRE.—At 4.45 A.M. on the 18th December, the Lifeboat Richard was launched, flares having been reported to have been shown by a vessel between the Sand Hale and the Rose Sand. The wind was blowing from the N.W., and the...
A Diving Boat
While the watchman was on duty on the morning of the 7th April, during a W.N.W. gale, with a very heavy sea, a diving boat belonging to the Railway Company was seen to part from her moorings at 10.30 A.M. She drifted out to sea and a small...
Jane
Shortly before 11 P.M. on the 18th May it was reported that a vessel was showing signals of distress on the north side of the harbour. The Life-boat Civil Service No. 5 was launched and proceeded to her assistance. The weather was very...
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Longhope, Orkney*. — On the afternoon of the 29th March a doctor asked for the life-boat to take a woman patient, who was suffering from appendicitis, to Scapa for an immediate operation. A strong S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea and...