LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht
Cliff rescue and yacht crew landed in one serviceThe ability of the Institution's inflatable lifeboats to work close inshore was well illustrated by a service carried out by Exmouth's D class on 13 August 1988 - a service which also...
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 9.12 in the morning, on the 19th of April, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was flying a distress signal. Accordingly at 9.15 the life- boat Louise Stephens was...
Sirius
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 5.10 on the evening of the 25th of August, 1951, the Port Radar Station telephoned that a yacht had broken her topmast and was in difficulties near Brockle- bank Dock. At 5.38 the life-boat Norman B. Corlett was...
Vispon
FLOODING EMERGENCY At 9.20 p.m. on 26th June, 1964, the Rescue Co-ordination Centre, Haulbowline, told the honorary secretary that the Spanish trawler Vispon, nine miles west of Bull Rock lighthouse, had sent out an SOS call as her engine...
Eriksborg, of Landskrona
FEBRUARY 6TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At eleven in the morning a message from a doctor, through a local shipping agent, asked for the services of the life-boat to land a man who had been seriously injured on board the Swedish steamer Eriksborg, of...
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Exhausting Cliff Service THE Barmouth, Merionethshire, IRB on 21st June, 1971, was requested to help in evacuating a badly injured woman who had fallen down cliff's at Friog. In view of the prevailing weather conditions the life-boat was...
The S.S. Warren Grove (2)
Arbroath, Broughty Ferry, and Montrose, Angus.—At 12.50 in the afternoon of the 10th of November, 1948, the Arbroath coastguard telephoned the Arbroath life-boat station that the S.S. El Ciervo, of London, had reported that she had picked...
THE EVOLUTION OF LIFESAVING KIT
As we plan the rollout of the next generation of crew kit, we review a stylish and practical history of lifeboat looks – from 1824 to the present day
Through driving rain and gale-force winds, our lifeboat crews have been...
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Victory
On the 4th November, when the local motor fishing boat Victory was at sea, the weather broke and freshened with a gale from the eastward. A heavy sea was run- ning. A watch was kept, and at 1.30 P.M., when the Victory was seen in the offing,...
Fishing Boats
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 10.30 A.M. on the 15th January the harbour entrance became very dangerous, owing to the bad races of sea which were running in. Danger signals were hoisted and the pulling and sailing life-boat Lizzie...