LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M. Coastguard's Busy Year
IN the past year H.M. Coastguard has taken part in about 750 incidents round the coasts of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Some were dangerous and spectacular, others were minor cliff rescues. They ranged from the recovery of a St....
Category: Services
Thanks to Stavros
RNLI lifeguards patrolled beaches in Wales this year, with substantial support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Formed in 1996 on the death of the eponymous Greek shipping magnate, the foundation gave a very generous grant to pay for...
Category: Articles
Letter
Thank you! This letter is long overdue to express my thanks and admiration to the 'lads and lassies' of the RNLI in Kyle of Lochalsh. On 16 September last year I brought Morgana my Nauttcat 38 alongside the pontoon in Kyle to take on...
Category: Correspondence
Another Balloon Race
ANOTHER life-boat balloon race has been held, this time by the St. Albans and Harpenden branch, in connexion with its life-boat day, last September.
Altogether 800 balloons were sent up.
Each had a label...
Category: Branches
Dinghies
Near gale in Chichester Harbour A CAPSIZED SAILING DINGHY with children and an adult in the water, sighted at the entrance to Emsworth Channel some five miles from Hayling Island ILB station, was reported to the honorary secretary by HM...
Mermaid
Coverack, Cornwall. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 26th November, 1961, the coxswain received a message from a resident of St. Keverne that a motor boat appeared to be in distress off the Manacles. The life-boat William Taylor of Oldham was...
Try
Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 10.20 a.m. on 13th October, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat had fired red flares two miles off the harbour.
At 10.39 the life-boat Tynesider was launched in...
Floating fireball
When a catamaran began pouring out smoke and flames, the lives of two sailors and their parrot were at stake.
It was clear, with a light south-westerly breeze and low tide when Powerboat Instructor Jono Garton (28) looked...
Category: Articles
Twelfth International Lifeboat Conference By Patrick Howarth
'Most of our problems are common — let us solve them together' by Patrick Howarth THE CITY OF HELSINKI became associated with international conferences in the minds of millions in July of this year through the great assembly of...
Category: Meetings
Dolphin
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.—At 7.58 on the evening of the 26th of July, 1955, the coxswain was told that a cabin cruiser was close under Porth- dinllaen Point, and that her crew were waving frantically. Twelve minutes later the...