LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Two fishermen lost LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD received a 999 call at 2159 on August 19, 1979, from Braystones reporting that twomen who had gone fishing in an inflatable dinghy had not returned. It was thought that they had gone south to the...
Atlantic Storms
" So long as men shall continue to navigate the ocean, and the tempests shall hold their course over its surface, disasters by sea, shipwreck and peril to human life must inevitably take place." —SIR WILLIAM HILLARY,...
Category: Articles
Blackfriars
Pollution disaster prevented Thanks on Vellum awarded to St. Davids coxswain Another pollution incident on the Welsh coast was averted when the St Davids lifeboat pulled a stranded oil tanker off a beach in a Gale Force 9.SIn a long and...
On the ropes
A kitesurfer, tangled in his lines, was drifting out to sea. He was dangerously close to jagged rocks and was about to take desperate measures
For Tom Davies from Bristol, it was the first time he’d kitesurfed on his own...
Category: Articles
RESCUE
Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year. Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the following pages for more reports:
6 SILLOTH | PAGE 14
7 MOELFRE | PAGE 16<...
Category: Articles
Feature: Extreme Search and Rescue
The seas off the north of Scotland and around Orkney and Shetland can be unforgiving and, in the worst of weathers, will catch out even the largest of ships. The safety of mariners and sea users in the area is overseen by the Maritime and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The New U.S. 44-Foot Steel Life-Boat
The following extract was taken from a paper presented to the ninth international life-boat conference in Edinburgh, 1963, by Lieut.-Commander Robert W. Witter, Chief, Boat Section, Naval Engineering Division, United States Coast Guard.<...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 5th June, 1862. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
The Ex-Admiralty M.F.V. Pilgrim
THE MASTER of the tug Superman asked Wells Coastguard for lifeboat assistance at 0450 on October 21, 1973; she was towing an ex-Admiralty MFV, Pilgrim, which, with two people on board, was in danger of breaking up; their position was...
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