LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Feature: Knowledge Is Cool!
All over the country, often far from the sea, members of a special RNLI team are saving young lives.
They are not launching lifeboats or plunging into rough water - but they need to be brave enough to stand up in front of a...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy (1)
Appledore, Devon - At 10.35 a-mon 25th June, 1967, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy he had been watching for about half an hour had capsized off North Tail.
The life-boat Louisa Anne Hawker slipped...
Star Song
RESCUE FROM YACHT AT THIRD ATTEMPT Humber, Yorkshire. At 10.27 on the morning of the 16th February, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a yacht was in •difficulties two miles north-east-bynoith of Grimsby. The life...
Nancy
BROADSTAIRS.—A vessel being seen in the offing, with a signal of distress flying, on the 3rd March, the Life-boat temporarily placed here in the absence of the station's own boat, was launched to her assistance about noon. A moderate W.N...
None (10)
Torbay, Devon. At 12.32 on the afternoon of the 23rd of August, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that a man had fallen down to the foot of the cliffs at Sharkham Point. At 12.45 the life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent left...
Glide
The Life-boat Thomas McCunn was summoned on the morning of the 5th November to the assistance of a vessel in distress and wanting help off Drummore. The boat was transported on her carriage to the vicinity of the distressed vessel and...
Colley
FOUR YACHTSMEN LANDED FROM DUTCH VESSEL Weymouth, Dorset. At 7.35 on the evening of Wednesday the 7th of August, 1963, the Wyke coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Dutch motor vessel Zundrecht had four survivors from the motor...
A Delight In Flag Days
PEOPLE sometimes complain of flag days. Collectors, perhaps, sometimes feel a little weary of them, but to those who come fresh to them they are evidently a delight. An organising secretary of the Institution recently wrote of a flag day:...
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Mary Immaculate
ENGINE BROKE DOWN Galway Bay. At 12.10 a.m. on 6th January, 1964, the Galway police informed the honorary secretary through the Kilronan coast life-saving station that a fishing boat with four people on board was missing in Galway Bay. There...
Eamont
During a moderate N.E. gale, with a rough sea and snow showers, on the morning of 31st March, the Mechanic of the Motor Life-boat R.N.L.B. 684 RM. saw the steam trawler Eamont, of Fleetwood, which was bound from the fishing grounds to...