LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht
D class inflatable tows large yacht to safety A service to a yacht by Lough Swilly's D class inshore lifeboat last July has earned the station a letter of congratulation from the RNLI's chief of operations, Commodore George Cooper....
Lifeboat weekends
A SERIES of unusual long weekends for lovers of ships, lifeboats and the sea are to be held in St Ives, Cornwall.
Mike and Jill Elleston, who own the tiny Skidden House Hotel, have organised two weekends in February and...
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Mirliton
On the 31st October flares were seen in the direction of the Holme Sand during a fresh S.E. by S. breeze, and a moderate sea, and the Gorton lightship also firedguns and rockets. The Life-boat proceeded out at 3.25 A.M. in tow of a steamtug,...
Good Fellowship
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 8.15 on the morning of the 10th of February, 1953, it was reported that the local fishing boat Good Fellowship was bound for North Sunderland from Blyth, with a crew of four, and was then east of Newton....
Precarious position
New Brighton’s B class lifeboat Charles Dibdin and hovercraft Hurley Spirit were called out on Friday 25 March when a yacht crewed by experienced local sailors got stuck in mud. The yacht was leaning...
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A Taxi
Two saved from taxi stranded on causeway West Mersea South East Division West Mersea's Atlantic 21 lifeboat carried out a somewhat unusual rescue on 26 January when she was called to a taxi stranded on the causeway to a nearby island.<...
Embla
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 4.45 P.M. on the 1st June, 1938, a small vessel was seen to be in a dangerous position S. by E. of the Splaugh Rock.
A moderate but increasing N.E. gale was blowing, with heavy rain and a...
None
Cut off by tide INFORMATION THAT A MAN had been reported cut off by the tide below the cliffs in the vicinity of the Coastguard lookout was passed to the honorary secretary of Whitby lifeboat station at 1630 on Sunday, June 5. The assembly...
Julia
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 16th of June, 1956, a message was received from Valentia radio that the Dutch motor vessel Stientje Mensinga had picked up the small yacht Julia ten miles north-east...
L'Entente Cordiale
FRENCH FISHING VESSEL IN ST. IVES BAY St. Ives, Cornwall.—For several days before the 2nd of May, 1947, the French motor fishing vessel L'Entente Cordiale, of Lorient, had been anchored in St.
Ives Bay, and had been a...