LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gypsy Rover
Leapt to the rescue THE STORMS WHICH SWEPT ACROSS THE English Channel on August Bank Holiday Monday, 1986, continued unabated the next day and it was towards the end of the afternoon on Tuesday, August 26 that a yacht in Alderney Harbour...
Gale-force teamwork
New Quay and Pwllheli’s all-weather lifeboats worked together to rescue the crew of the Galasma on 6 September. The yacht, with fi ve people onboard, was having trouble in a force 8 northerly wind. Rough seas meant she wasn’t making much...
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Eniskillen: Five-star fundraising
Five young members of Lough Erne Yacht Club went the extra mile for the RNLI last year, when they held a mini triathlon to raise lifesaving funds. By paddling, cycling and running, they raised £310 for Enniskillen Lifeboat Station. Emma...
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Fastnet Family
A father and son team were racing their yacht to the Fastnet Rock in the early hours of 17 June when they were hit by a large wave.
Thrown into the water, the harnesses they were wearing allowed them to clamber back...
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Albas
High and dry on the Goodwins RAMSGATE HONORARY SECRETARY Was informed by Dover Straits Coastguard at 2025 on Thursday, September 11, 1975, that, following a number of reports of red flares sighted over the Goodwin Sands, Walmer lifeboat had...
Services of the Life-Boats In 1963
Date Station 1963 Jan. 4 Selsey „ 7 Humber „ 9 North Sunderland .
„ 12 Humber „ 12 Sunderland..
„ 12 Berwick „ 16 Humber „ 16 Scarborough „ 16 Whitby „ 17 Caister „ 18 Scarborough „ 18 Runswick ..
Category: Services
Speed Boats, Dinghies, Canoes, Yachts, Cabin Cruisers and a Trimaran
Poole is one of the RNLI's busiest lifeboat stations with a 'patch' which contains some of the best beaches on the South Coast and the world's second largest natural harbour. Although the harbour is sheltered, it is packed...
Westralia and Heracles
Yachts on a lee shore A YACHT, Westralia, dragging her anchor in Forth Wen Bay and in danger of going on to rocks was reported to the honorary secretary of Moelfre lifeboat station by Cemaes Bay Coastguard at 2009 on August 30, 1975. Maroons...
Noroda
Walmer, Kent.—About 7.40 on the morning of the 21st of September, 1952, the coxswain received a message that a yacht was in distress three miles from the South Goodwin Buoy. The coastguard were informed, and the life-boat Charles Dibdin,...
Lugo
Yacht towed to safety from breaking seas on lee shore A difficult service in darkness, gale force winds and heavy breaking seas just yards from a sea wall has earned Coxswain James Kinnon of Ramsey lifeboat station the Thanks of the...