LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NOVEMBER 22ND. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. At 1.15 in the afternoon the Holyhead coastguard reported that an R.A.F. aeroplane had crashed between the breakwater and the Skerries. A strong northwest wind was blowing, with a moderately rough sea,...

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DEC. 21ST. - DONAGHADEE CO DOWN. At 8.20 P.M. the coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities had reported a vessel ashore at the South Briggs.

A light N.W. wind was blowing. There were patches of fog, and the sea was...

Among sandbanks AT 1621 on Sunday March 31, 1985, a coastguard auxiliary from Brancaster reported to his Great Yarmouth coordination centre that he had a board sailor in sight who was in trouble. He was lying on his board, unable to reach...

Last year some boys belonging to the Bluebird Navigators visited the RNLI Depot at Boreham Wood with Mr Jim Garrard, of Kesgrove, Suffolk, their leader. Mr Garrard puts on his static displays for the RNLI all around the east coast and does...

On the outside of the lifeboat station was a board recording the number of launches, people assisted and so on. 'That's the important one', said a crew member, pointing to 45 lives saved. Only the sharp shadow of his hand cast...

Father and son trapped in cave Adifficult and dangerous service by Port Isaac's D class inshore lifeboat has led to the award of the RNLI's Thanks on Vellum to her helmsman Kevin Dingle and to a crew member, Mike Edkins.

THE rescue from the Greek motor vessel Nafsiporos, in which fifteen men were saved by the Holyhead and Moelfre lifeboats, will probably long be recalled as one of the great achievements in the life-boat service.

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