LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Cabin Cruiser Dimcyl
Cromer, Norfolk.—About 9.30 on the morning of the 9th of January, 1951, the coastguard reported a small vessel, anchored to the north-east of Cromer, which appeared to have engine trouble.
She was showing no distress...
A Pilot Launch, a Port Control Launch and Dereske
DECEMBER 12TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. During the evening a strong southerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and a pilot launch and a port control launch, both of Cork, were swamped and sunk in Cork Harbour when on their way to put...
Training for Disaster
ILINER EXPLODES IN WORKINGTON HARBOUR - MANY FEARED DEAD, 100 INJURED 'Sirens blasted across Workington as black clouds of smoke rose above the town. Roads were blocked as ambulances and fire engines hurtled towards the docks, blue...
Category: Articles
A Powerboat Rescue By Ray Bulman
WHILE its popularity rise has not been quite so obvious when compared with the pleasure boating explosion as a whole, offshore powerboat racing today has a very strong coastwise following with events held every summer weekend at different...
Category: Articles
Rescue By Scottish Police Sergeant
FOR his part in the rescue of three bathers off the Sutherland coast on the 10th August, 1967, Sergeant Andrew Lister of the Ross and Sutherland Constabulary has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on...
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24 hours on the Thames
Tower Lifeboat Station is the busiest in the UK. To find out exactly what life is like for the crew members that save lives on the capital's most famous waterway, Writer Catherine Richards spent 24 hours shadowing a shift ....
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Fall from cliff THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Abersoch ILB station was informed by HM Coastguard at 1701 on Thursday August 23, 1979, that a boy had fallen from the cliff at Llanbedrog Head, two miles north east of the station. The...
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Stuck in mud A MAN stuck in the mud at the mouth of the River Taff was reported to Swansea Coastguard by Cardiff Police at 2322 on Sunday August 24, 1980. Three men had been in a boat that sank. Two had managed to reach shore, but the third...
The End of the Beginning
On 30 November 1993 the Mersey class lifeboat Freddie Cooperarrived at Aldeburgh to mark the beginning of a new era - an era in which there are fast lifeboats at every one of the RNLI's stations.
It was also...
Category: Articles
Letters
Dear Editor, Scanning the letters page of the summer 2005 issue of the Lifeboat, my eye was caught by the small photograph of the Selsey lifeboat towing a cabin cruiser. Though the doctored picture featuring fearless towrope-walker Max...
Category: Correspondence