LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
ONLY TOP OF YACHT'S MAST VISIBLE IN SEAS Five saved as yacht drifts on to shoal in gale force windsA service in severe conditions to a disabled yacht with five people aboard has earned Robert Wright, the coxswain of Pwllheli lifeboat,...
Category: Services
Inshore Rescue Boats on Service
Launches on service from 1st July to 3ist August, 1965, which resulted in the rescue of people in difficulties are described in chronological order below.
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 5.25 p.m. on 2nd July, 1965, a small...
Category: Services
Fast Work
The announcement of two new classes of lifeboat, the Trent and Severn on 10 December 1992, made the year something of a landmark for the RNLI. The introduction of even a single lifeboat class, let alone two, is an achievement far greater...
Category: Articles
Bass, Alto and Vivendi (1)
Yachts in distress THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of The Lizard-Cadgwith lifeboat station was telephoned on the evening of Monday September 3, 1984, to be told by Falmouth coastguard that a red flare had been sighted off Poldhu Cove. The...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SUTTON, LINCOLNSHIRE.—At the request of the crew, the boat on this station has been replaced by a new self-righting Life- boat, 30 feet long, 8 feet wide, and rowing 8 oars double-banked. A new transport- ing-carriage was sent with the boat....
Category: Articles
Vertruvius, of Liverpool
The Zelinda life-boat at Portrush, after several trials, saved the crew of 6 men of the brigautine Vitrumus, of Liverpool, which had stranded on Curran Point.
Castledown, of Belfast
On the 15th October, during a strong westerly breeze, the lugger Castletown, of Belfast, in working out of Howth Harbour, struck on a rock near Ireland's Eve. The tide being at the time just on the turn, her position became very perilous...
Rubin, of Liverpool
On the 21st of January the Lytham life-boat again rendered a most important service. On the morning of that day a vessel was observed pn the Salthonse Bank making signals of distress, it blowing a hard gale from the N.W., with a heavy...
Favourite
WEXFORD,—At 1 P.M., on the 9th May, while a strong wind was blowing in squalis from the N.E. accompanied by a heavy sea, signals of distress were shown from the fishing yawl Favourite, of Wexford, which had stranded on the South side of the...
Nathaneli
NEW BRIGHTON.—Bockets were fired from Blundle Sands and New Brighton Coastguard stations on the evening of the 3rd December, denoting that a vessel was in danger, and that the services of the Life-boat were required. The Willie and Arthur...