LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
People and Places
On Station The following lifeboats have taken up station and relief fleet duties: ALL-WEATHER Workington - Tyne 47-028 (ON 1141) Sir John Fisher on 8 June 1992.
Peel -Mersey 12-22 (ON 1181) Ruby Clery on 10 June...
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Dutchy
Margate, Kent. At 3.15 on the after- noon of 26th April, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Dutchy of Rotterdam was ashore on the rocks at Walpole Bay, with her engine broken down. It was then almost low...
Festina-Lente
Yacht among rocks THE NORWEGIAN YACHT Festina-Lente reported by VHP radio at 1333 on Tuesday December 14, 1982, that her engine and steering gear had failed; she was one mile south of St Helier Harbour entrance.
The yacht...
Rock and roller rescue
During a surfing competition, one bodyboarder got more excitement than he’d bargained for
The setting
During the Volcom surfing contest on 10 September...
Category: Articles
Vanguard
CAISTER.—The fishing dandy Vanguard, of Great Yarmouth, returning to her port from the fishing grounds during a strong breeze from the E.N.E. and a heavy sea on the 19th September, went on the Barber Sand ; she got off, but afterwards...
RESCUE
HUMPBACK WHALE FREED
DART/SALCOMBE | 22 MARCH
RNLI crew never quite know what to expect when they’re called out – this time it was an 8m humpback whale trapped
n fishing gear. The lifeboats helped...
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Boy Andrew
These dramatic photographs capture an incident on Friday 13 January 1989 when the fishing vessel Boy Andrew ran into a narrow gulley at Trebister Ness on Westray in the Shetlands. Lerwick's Arun Soldian took the crew off by Y boat and...
R.A.F. Seaplanes and R.A.F. Launch No. 867
APRIL 7TH. - CROMARTY. At 6.35 in the morning a message came from the R.A.F.
that several of their seaplanes had broken adrift from their moorings, with their crews aboard, that they had not enough boats to face the storm,...
Menai Packet
On the 11th November, at about 5 P.M., the smack Menai Packet, of Carnarvon, bound from Swansea to Newry, with coal, which was riding at anchor in Forthdinllaen Bay, showed a signal of distress.
As the •wiad -was not...
Fishing Boats
MONTROSE.—On the 21st August the herring fleet started for the fishing ground in favourable weather; but during the night the wind blew very strongly from the E.S.E., increasing to a moderate gale, while a very heavy sea broke across thebar....