LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
Teymar (1)
Eleven lifeboats in biggest ever Cardigan Bay searchCrew from nine lifeboat stations were united in a search for a missing power boat at Cardigan Bay. The Coastguard coordinated an extensive search involving 11 lifeboats, a rescue helicopter...
Flensburg
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 11.50 on the night of the 22nd of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Flensburg of Kiel wanted to land a sick seaman.
The honorary secretary agreed that...
City of Dublin Ladies' Life-Boat Guild
Left to right: Senator the Rt. Hon. Andrew Jameson (Chairman, City of Dublin Branch), Her Excellency Mrs. James McNeill, Major Arthur Whcwell (Chairman, Special Effort Committee), Mr. R. Noel Guinness (Honorary Secretary), Mr. B. J. Newcambe... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Heron
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 5.50 on the morning of the 6th of September, 1959, a message was re- ceived that the motor boat Heron, which had a man and his wife on board and was towing a small dinghy, had not returned from a...
MAYDAY FOOD AND DRINK FESTIVAL
Following a fantastic reception last year, the RNLI College's Mayday Food Festival returns to Holes Bay in Poole, Dorset on April 30. The foodie festivities kick off a month of fundraising with our pick of local and artisan delights,...
Category: Articles
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Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 12.30 in the afternoon of the 2nd of April, 1950, the Cranfield coastguard telephoned that the Haulbowline lighthouse was flying a flag asking for help; and shortly after a message came that it was sig-...
M.F.V. Arctic Solatair, two Motor Boats and two Sailboards
Five calls WHEN, ON THE, AFTERNOON of Saturday September 17, 1983, the 35ft MFV Arctic Solatair picked up a floating rope around her propeller and went ashore at Skinningrove, about six miles south of Redcar, Tees Coastguard telelphoned the...
H.M.S. Vortigern (1)
MARCH 15TH. - CROMER, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. On the night of the 14th March and in the morning of the 15th, a convoy was attacked by enemy E-boats.
The E-boats in turn were attacked by destroyers and by H.M.S. Vortigern,...
Vigilance
Selsey, Sussex.—At seven o'clock on the evening of the 2nd of August, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the yacht Vigilance, of Shoreham, which had left Shoreham for Portland on the 31st of July with a crew of three, was drifting two...