LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Blackpool, Lancashire.—During the afternoon of the 25th July two men were out in a small boat attending on people...
Category: Services
Donald Searle
Seventeen saved from 75ft yacht aground in gale and 20ft breakersTwo Hayling Island lifeboatmen, Roderick James and Frank Dunster, have been awarded the RNLI's Silver Medal for their part in the rescue of 17 people from a 75ft yacht...
Lifeboat Services
Deep water 'rocks' sink yacht Donaghadee Ireland Division Donaghadee's Arun class lifeboat City of Belfast was called to an unusual incident on 2 July 1988 when a Mayday call was heard from a sinking yacht at...
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Lifeboats and Lifeguards In Action
Brothers and stations uniteWhen Red Bay lifeboat crew were paged, there was no immediate threat to life for the couple on the yacht, Chtoe. Yet at Red Bay station brothers Tom and Paddy McLaughlin remember thinking: 'It was blowing a...
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A Motor Boat and Six Yachts
TWO LIFE-BOATS PUT OUT TO YACHT Llandudno, Caernarvonshire, and Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 14th August, 1962, the Llandudno coastguard reported that a small motor boat, which had six yachts in tow, was making no...
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Tragedy as five are swept overboard from charter ya cht A short but difficult search for survivors from a yacht which had been knocked down in the entrance to Tynemouth harbour has earned three of Tynemouth lifeboat's crew letters of...
Ocea
Steering failure LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of New Brighton lifeboat station at 1400 on Sunday August 29, 1982, that the yacht Ocea was acting in an erratic manner and appeared to be in difficulties just north of...
Romantic
Dover, Kent.—-On the night of the 17th August Ramsgate coastguard telephoned that South Goodwin lightvessel had reported SOS signals and flares about two and a half miles southeast of the light-vessel. The sea was smooth and the weather was...
St. Helier
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.12 on the morning of the 27th of May, 1951, the yacht St. Heller, of Burnham, was seen a quarter of a mile off the pier, where she had been lying all night.
The coxswain went out to her and found...
Hilary
Hastings, Sussex.—At 1.40 in the afternoon on the llth of August, 1951, the Fairlight coastguard telephoned that a yacht was showing distress signals one mile off South Pett. She was the Hilary, a converted life-boat, bound from Boulogne to...