LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Seafarer
On the 7th April four men and a woman put out for a trial run in a motor boat, the Seafarer. When about a mile offshore, in Weymouth bay, they ran out of petrol and their boat began to drift out to sea. One of the men swam ashore and gave...
Lifeboats heading to TV screens
Always gripping, often dramatic - it's no wonder the BBC will soon be airing a new documentary about the work of our volunteer lifesavers. The forthcoming series- Saving Lives At Sea -tells the story of volunteers at a variety of UK...
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Bookshelf
Dial 999 - Emergency Services in Action by John Creighton ISBN 1-85058-297-1 published by Sigma Leisure at £9.95 John Creighton has spent some time as an operational firefighter and in the maritime rescue services, so is well qualified...
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News and Views
A Big Thank You from the Anniversary Project Manager So that's it. 1999 has come and gone and the 175th anniversary is now officially over. Only the Scots carried on with the celebrations right up to the official birthday of 4 March 2000...
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Vellum Accorded to National Trust Warden
ABOUT 9.45 on the morning of the 16th of April, 1960, a rubber and canvas collapsible canoe, which had left Burn- ham Overy Staiths for Blakeney, Nor- folk, capsized in the surf off Blakeney Point. There were two men on board, who were...
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Gisele Aimee
Weymouth, Dorset.—At about 4.20 A.M. on the 4th August, 1938, Wyke coastguard reported that a yacht was in difficulties north of Weymouth Pier and was burning red flares. She was the auxiliary yacht Gisele Aimee, of St. Malo, bound, with a...
Thelma
SUTTON, LINCOLNSHIRE. — A message by telephone was received on the 21st May, 1898, stating that a steamer was aground about two hundred yards south of Huttoft. The Life-boat Sir John was launched at 12.45 p.m., and found the vessel was the...
Pilot Me
FISHING COBLE AT SEA At 11.15 a-m- on 3otn October, 1963, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the local fishing coble Pilot Me was at sea in very bad weather, and the coxswain thought that she would have difficulty in returning...
Margaret and Goshawk
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 8.50 on the evening of the 27th of July, 1957, a telephone message was re- ceived that a yacht with her sails badly torn was eight miles south of Campbeltown. A fishing vessel was alongside her and she was in no...
Granat
Valentia, Co. Kerry - At 9.55 p.m. on 23rd October, 1969, Valentia radio station informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Ard Finbar had reported seeing red flares about twomiles north west of Bray head. The life-boat Rowland Watts...