LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Body-Board
Off-duty lifeguard saves body-boarder When a man was caught by a rip current and swept towards some rocks at Newquay, Rod MacDonald, an off-duty Beach Rescue lifeguard, acted instinctively and bravely to save the man's lifeOff-duty Beach...
Ann, of Torquay
On the night of the 23rd March the services of this valuable life-boat were again brought into requisition. During a ter- rific gale of wind from the S., and a very heavy sea, the beachmen on the look-out had observed a vessel driving with...
James Napier
MR. JAMES NAPIER, a member of the Committee of Management since 1934, died on the 13th of November, 1953.
From 1934 to 1939 he was a member of the Boat Committee. A ship- builder by profession, he was chairman of the Steel...
Category: Obituaries
Manchester Merit
INJURED SEAMEN TAKEN OFF AN injured seaman aboard the container ship Manchester Merit led to the Appledore, Devon, life-boat being called to her at 6.51 p.m. on 9th January. At that time she was 40 miles south west of the Smalls...
Feature: Launching Saves Lives
The pages of the Lifeboat feature many brave and skilful rescues but it is easy to overlook that, before a lifeboat reaches a casualty, just launching can be a demanding task If all lifeboat stations were based in easily accessible harbours...
Category: Articles
Cristo
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 7.15 on the evening of the 8th of May, 1957, a message was received from the Penmon coastguard that a motor vessel, which was anchored in a dangerous position near the Perch Rock in the channel between Anglesey and...
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JANUARY 31ST. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. During the morning, a man who had arrived from Llandudno on the previous day fell over the cliffs near Pen Trwyn. A moderate southerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. It was too rough for a...
Coxswain Robert Patton of Runswick
JUST after four in the morning of 8th February, 1934, the life-boat station at Runswick, Yorkshire, re- ceived a message from the coastguard that distress signals were being fired five miles N.N.E. of Staithes Nab. A gale was blowing from...
Category: Obituaries
Paviroma
Weymouth, Dorset.— About 7.55 in the morning of the 8th of August, 1948, the Wyke Regis coastguard tele- phoned a message received from the British steamer Megara that she was standing by the yacht Paviroma, of Southampton, fourteen miles...
Catherine Shaun, of Fleetwood
Caister, Norfolk - At 8.45 p.m. on 22nd July, 1968, a life-boat helperinformed the motor mechanic that a radio message from the trawler Catherine Shaun of Fleetwood had been intercepted, reporting that she had an injured man on board who...