LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Breaksea (1)
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...
Lifeboat Services
TIME OF THE ESSENCE AS TOW IS PASSED Eight saved from yacht dismasted and close to rocks in onshore gale The coxswain of Blyth lifeboat, Keith Barnard, has been awarded the RNLI's Thanks of the Institution on Vellum for saving the lives...
Category: Services
Search In High Wind
FOR a search carried out in a northwesterly wind of storm force, when a wind speed of over 107 miles per hour was recorded, letters of commendation have been sent to the members of the crew of the St. Helier life-boat and of a Jersey pilot...
Category: Services
Samsal
Stranded yacht AS DUSK FELL ON Tuesday, October 6, 1987, Liverpool Coastguard MRSC advised New Brighton's station honorary secretary, Captain John Billington, that a small yacht, believed to be the 24ft Samsal, had been observed possibly...
Nahula
Peel, Isle of Man.—At 9.50 on the morning of the 29th of May, 1955, the honorary secretary noticed that one of the yachts in the race round the island had been dismasted. At 10.20 the life-boat Helena Harris-Manchester and District XXXI was...
The Cruisada
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—On the evening of the 7th of April a small vessel was observed in the Wallet Channel, S.E. of Clacton Pier, during a strong S.W. wind and a very rough sea. With the aid of a powerful glass, it was seen that she wasdisabled,...
Escape, of Belfast
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—During the afternoon of the 8th August, the sailing yacht Escape, of Belfast, with two men on board, left Portrush for her home port. There was very little wind and she began to drift towards the dangerous Skirk rocks....
Mab
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 3.40 on the morning of the 6th of June, 1955, the life-boat shore attendant reported that a vessel was burning flares on the south side of the harbour. At 3.55 the life-boat A.E.D. put out. The sea was rough, there...
Saida
Exmouth, Devon. — At 12.53 early on the morning of the 18th of August, 1955, the coast-guard rang up to say that red flares had been seen on the seaward side of Pole Sands. At 1.9 the life-boat Maria Noble was launched. There was a ground...
Skugga
Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.25 on the night of the llth of September, 1955, the Lade coastguard rang up to say that a boat was burning red flares east of Rye Harbour. Ten minutes later the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched. The sea...