LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Richard Dimbleby's Appeal
[On Sunday the 21st of February, J954, the B.B.C. broadcast the following appeal by Mr. Richard Dimbleby, O.B.E., in the Home Service. It is reproduced by kind permission of the B.B.C.] I THINK it may surprise many of...
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Sirenia
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE AND BROOKE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—On the afternoon of the 9th March, the ship Sirenia, of Glasgow, bound from San Francisco for Dunkirk with a cargo of wheat, stranded on Atherfield Ledge during a thick fog. The Life-boat...
The S.S. Asia
Penlee, Cornwall. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 2nd of February, 1959, the port medical officer told the honorary secretary that the s.s. Asia of Liverpool, which was then three miles south-south-west of Carn Du, was making for...
Sea Knight
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 11.40 on the morning of the 7th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a wireless message had been received from the Norwegian tanker Sigurdrinde that a yacht had been taken in tow...
Endeavour and Easter Morn
Whitby, Yorkshire. — Early on the morning of the 25th of October, 1954, the weather worsened while the fishing fleet were at sea, and conditions at theharbour became dangerous. At 7.45 the life-boatmen assembled to wait for the boats to...
Opportune
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 6.4 on the evening of the 23rd of November, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a fishing boat near Proudfoot was flashing signals and had burnt red flares. At 6.30 the life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched....
RNLI FAMILY
Rhyl couple tie the knot
Congratulations to Coastguard volunteer Andrea and RNLI volunteer Andy, who brought a whole new level of inter-agency cooperation to the shores of Rhyl when they got married in June. Andrea...
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The Parsons Engineering Co. Ltd
PRIDE OF PLACE The Parsons Engineering Co. Ltd. are proud to acknowledge the continued installation of their 'Penguin', 'Porbeagle' and 'Barracuda' marine diesel engines in ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION...
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Trapped up to their waists
Morecambe | 4 September
When an elderly couple got trapped up to their waists in mud -with the tide coming in- Morecambe RNLI's hovercraft crew flew to the...
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Tyne's inflatable used to transfer sick woman through surf to lifeboat Commodore George Cooper, the RNLI's Chief of Operations, has written to congratulate Coxswain/mechanic Robert Erskine and his crew for 'a fine team effort...