LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Feature Come Fly With Me
The RNLI reached an important milestone in December when its first rescue hovercraft went on station at Morecambe on the north west coast. The Lifeboat takes an in-depth look at this exciting new addition to the fleet.'It's a lot...
Category: Articles
Dorothy
On the night of the 20th October the fishing boat Wenden came in and reported that the motor fishing boat Dorothy was in trouble off Berry Head, with her propeller fouled by nets. Her two occupants had asked for the motor trawler Cygnet to...
Shoanne
MOTOR CRUISER Swanage, Dorset. At 6.33 p.m. on 5th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a large motor cruiser appeared to be in difficulties about six miles off Kimmeridge. There was a choppy sea with a fresh...
Rnli News
Official visits The RNLI was host to several visitors in the early part of 1990, each with a different interest in the Institution and its work.
On 24 January Patrick McLoughlin MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State...
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Fishing Boats
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — At 10.15 A.M. on the 2nd October, 1938, the coxswain saw from the boat-house thatseveral fishing boats were in trouble between Southend Pier and the Mid Shoebury Buoy. Some of them ran for shelter. The sea was very...
Melinda Muriel (1)
Overturned fishing vessel AN EIGHTEEN FOOT fishing vessel, Melinda Muriel, had put out to sea from Skinningrove, Cleveland, with fourpeople on board on the morning of Tuesday July 29, 1986. The wind was north westerly and there were squally...
Achieve
Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 22nd of August, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that he had received a message from the Barnsness lighthouse that a man in a drifting fishing boat a mile east of the light- house was...
Obituaries
Deaths It is with regret that we report the following deaths Marjofie Berry Falmouth guild president Hugh Bryan Chew Valley branch former chairman Henry 'Shrimp' Davies Former Cromer coxswain (see right) Andrew Forbes Former...
Category: Obituaries
Lifeboat Services
ON THURSDAY April 8, the honorary secretary of St Ives lifeboat station was down at the boathouse in the late afternoon when, at 1628, he saw a 16ft sailing dinghy leave harbour with two young men and two youths on...
Category: Services
Svanen
The Wexford harbour master informed the life-boat authorities on the evening of the 15th November that the four- masted motor vessel Svanen, of Copen- hagen, was aground on Wexford Bar.
She had a crew of eight on board, and...