LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
Ecclesiastical point I have been interested in the correspondence about Shoreline. I would leave things as they are. Certainly I would not want to have Lifeboat Supporters Club as a name because although we do not go to sea those of us who...
Category: Correspondence
A Welsh Silver Medal Service
Rescue of a French Crew at Barry Dock.
ON the morning of 17th September the French schooner Goeland, of Paimpol, was on her way from Brest to Swansea with a cargo of onions. A strong gale from the W.N.W. was blowing, with...
Category: Services
Welcome
Phil, interviewed on page 18, lost his son to the sea. Now he has pledged his support for the RNLI’s Respect the Water campaign, which this year will reach more people than ever. It wasn’t easy for Phil to talk about the tragedy that has hit...
Category: Articles
Your shout
The ‘shout’ came at 3.20pm one Friday. In minutes, we were aboard RNLB Realistic and I was quickly settled in the Helmsman’s seat, the Coxswain by my side. In front of me was a comforting array of dials and screens – radar, GPS, compass,...
Category: Articles
Jet Skis and Inflatables
Busy day for Rhyl ifeboats hyl lifeboat was the busiest lifeboat station in the UK on 18 June 2000 - responding to no less than ten incidents in ten hours! R Glorious sunshine helped to attract the crowds to Rhyl for the Royal British Legion...
Legislative Enactments and Benevolent Associations for the Benefit of British Seamen
IN a lecture recently delivered, and since published, by Rear-Admiral Sir WILLIAM EDWARD PARRY, entitled " A Lecture on the Character, Condition, and Responsibilities of British Seamen," will be found the following abstract of the...
Category: Articles
Berdinkha
HARTLEPOOL.—On the 23rd December, at about 7 A.M., the brig Berdinkha, of Hartlepool, ran ashore on the North Sands at half tide. When the tide rose, the sea and wind became stronger, and at about 2.30 P.M. three steam-tugs went to her...
Success II, Faith Star, Pilot Me and Provider A
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.15 on the 31st of January, 1953, the coxswain of the No. 1 life-boat saw that bad weather was making the conditions at the harbour bar and harbour entrance dangerous, and at 11.25 the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was...
The Outer Dowsing Lightvessel
Hutnber, Yorkshire.—At 10.7 on the morning of the 23rd of October, 1955, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the Superintendent of the Trinity House depot at Great Yarmouth that a member of the crew of...
The Sailing Boat Ranwara
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 3rd of June, 1956the Polruan coastguard reported that a sailing boat moored off Portscatho seemed to be dragging her anchor. As the weather conditions were bad the life-boat Cunard,...