LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Melrose, of Galway
AUGUST 21ST. - GALWAY BAY. At 2.45 in the afternoon information was received from the coast life-saving service at Casla that the motor boat Melrose, of Galway, was on the rocks in Casla Bay. A moderate south-easterly breeze was blowing,...
In This Issue
Feature: Rapid response 2 The RNLI's flood relief work at home and abroad News 7 Including the latest on the new Tamar class Books 12 Including a fitting tribute to the late Helen Tew Feature: 'Gallant rescue by ladies' 14...
Category: Contents
Silver Medal for Director
RNLI Operations Director Michael Vlasto will receive a Silver Medal at this year’s RNLI Annual Presentation of Awards.
Michael, who is retiring later this year after almost 40 years’ service, has been awarded the honorary...
Category: Articles
Swimming
A RECRUIT, on entering the French army, is early taught to swim. Water, when it becomes familiar, is the best of friends.
Soldiers have been known to march fifteen miles further (after a long march) under a sultry sun,...
Category: Articles
A Herring Drifter
NOVEMBER 30 TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW. At 9.15 P.M. a message was received from the civic guard that a fishing boat was showing distress signals half a mile up the north shore, and at 9.40 P.M. the motor life-boat Inbhear Mor was...
Auk
SEPTEMBER 8TH- PORT ASKAIG , ARGYLLSHIRE. At 8.10 A.M. a message was received from the Kilchoman coastguard that a vessel was ashore on Chuirn Island, Ardmore Point, Islay. The weather was thick, with a slight N.W. wind and a calm sea. At...
Sheerness: Cliff-fall teen returns with thanks
Four weeks after suffering spinal injuries falling 10m down a cliff on the Isle of Sheppey, 17-year-old
Logan Enfield called in to Sheerness Lifeboat Station to thank the crew who came to his rescue.
Logan, visiting...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
South Western Division Tanker aground GUERNSEY LIFEBOAT, the 52' Arun Sir William Arnold, had been called out at 2250 on July 14, 1975, to escort a fishing boat under tow into harbour.
She returned from this service at...
Category: Services
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
NEW BRIGHTON.—The tubular Life- boat on this station having become unfit for further service has, in accordance with the wishes of the crew, been replaced by a non-self-righting sailing Life-boat of the Watson type, 43 ft. long and 12 ft. 6...
Category: Articles
Donald Searle
Seventeen saved from 75ft yacht aground in gale and 20ft breakersTwo Hayling Island lifeboatmen, Roderick James and Frank Dunster, have been awarded the RNLI's Silver Medal for their part in the rescue of 17 people from a 75ft yacht...