LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Boat (1)
Fishing boat capsized A TELEPHONE CALL was received by the honorary secretary of Penarth lifeboat station at 1311 on Friday September 18, 1981, from The Mumbles Coastguard requesting the launch of the lifeboat: a message had come on VHP...
Integrity
At 2.15 A.M.
on the 24th January the Coastguard reported that a message had been received stating that a smack was ashore about two miles below the town, near Covehithe. The No. 1 Life-boat Alfred Gorry was smartly launched...
Swimmers from Life-Boats
ONCE many life-boatmen considered it an unlucky gift to swim too well but since those days things have changed. For well over a year now the R.N.L.I, has been evaluating the use of swimmers from life-boats, as well as the kind of special...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (78)
OCTOBER 12TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
At 12.39 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea 3 1/2 miles S.W. of Towan Head, and the motor life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was launched at...
Mrs Pleydell-Bouverie,
Mrs Pleydell-Bouverie, mother of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu; president of the Lymington ladies lifeboat guild. Mrs Pleydell-Bouverie joined the branch in 1986..
Category: Obituaries
Corsair
COUBTOWN, Co. WEXFORD.—The Alfred and Ernest Life-boat put off at noon on the 9th August, signals of distress having been shown from the schooner Corsair, of Arklow. That vessel had for several months past been stranded on the beach about a...
Safety at Sea With Pyrotechnics-Part 2 Distress Signals and Procedures
HAVING decided which are the correct distress signals to be carried according to the size of craft concerned and her particular marine activities (Schermuly's complete range of officially approved marine distress pyrotechnics was...
Category: Articles
Dog Tired
Word came on 7 April that a dog was in trouble off Dynamite quay, St Ives – and that a man was about to try to rescue it. The tide was rushing out of the estuary, making any such attempt by a swimmer extremely dangerous. When the D class...
Category: Articles
High Seas...
llfracombe - South Division More vie A/s of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
llfracombe. on the north Devon coast, is seen from the west in this view, taken towards high water. The Inner Harbour dries completely at low...
Category: Articles
Westward
Margate, Kent. — On the night of the 3rd October the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station that information had been received from the Tongue Light-vessel that a vessel was dragging her anchor and making signals of distress. A south...