LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Susan
LIFE-BOAT CHECKS SAFETY OF YACHT Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At ten to nine on the evening of Tuesday the 20th August, 1963, the coxswain received a telephone message from the honorary secretary that the Rhyl coastguard had a small yacht...
Skald II
Dungeness, Kent - At 10 a.m. on 30th April, 1967, a yacht was reported ashore at St. Mary's Bay between the groynes and close to the sea wall. The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched in a moderate south west wind and a smooth sea. It...
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JUNE 2 3RD. - PORT ASKAIG, HEBRIDES.
About five in the afternoon of the 22nd of June a request was received from a doctor at Colonsay, for the life-boat to take a man, who was dangerously ill with appendicitis, to Oban for...
Eau de Vie
Eight saved from yacht dismasted and close to rocks in onshore galeThe coxswain of Blyth lifeboat, Keith Barnard, has been awarded the RNLI's Thanks of the Institution on Vellum for saving the lives of eight people from a dismasted yacht...
Bronze Medal for a Brave Irish Boy
As our readers know, the Institution makes awards for all rescues or attempted rescues of those in peril from shipwreck round the coasts of the United Kingdom, whether the rescues are performed by the Life-boat crews themselves or by private...
Category: Medals
Lyrma
Gold medal AT 0058 ON MONDAY, December 6, 1976, the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station was informed by the Coastguard that the motor vessel Lyrma had requested immediate assistance six miles east of Start Point. Her exact position...
Davenport
At 11.45 A.M.
on the 14th February, the coast- guard at Hornsea telephoned that a barge, anchored about six miles S.E.
of Hornsea, was flying a flag that could not be distinguished, but that she was...
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part Vi—Foundations
PLANKING OF THE HULL being finished, work can begin on building up the inside structures of the boat. First the way is cleared by stripping out the temporary building frames. They will be replaced by the four marine plywood bulkheads which,...
Category: Articles
Melody
Skilful boat handling and teamwork played a major role in this rescue but, for New Brighton Helmsman Mark Bland, decision making was the difficult part. Here's Mark's personal account While working at my office at Safe Water Training...
Plymouth Life-Boat Returns After Her Annual Survey
Plymouth Life-Boat Returns After Her Annual Survey. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs