LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coastguard changes
At the time of going to print, the RNLI was awaiting the outcome of a UK Government consultation on the modernisation of the Coastguard service. Under Government proposals, the number of maritime rescue coordination centres (MRCCs) around...
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Beverwick
Tynemouth, Northumberland. On the 6th February, 1966, the honorary secretary was informed that an attempt was to be made to refloat the Dutch dredger Beverwick which had stranded on the Tynemouth pier, and that the captain in charge of the...
Olive and Agnes
Sunderland, Co. Durham. — In the afternoon of the 17th November the coxswain saw two cobles in difficulty off Hendon. A N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea and heavy rain. The motor life-boat Edward and Isabella Irwin put out at 2.50 A...
Gipsy
On the 29th October the schooner Gipsy, of Drogheda, coal laden, in attempting to take the bar at the mouth of the Boyne, was driven ashore on the North Wall, the wind blowing a heavy gale from the south at the time. The Drogheda life-boat...
Hannah Taylor
At 11 A.M on the 27th March the Cox- swain of the Life-boat Co-operator No. 1 received a report stating that a fishing coble had had her rudder broken about one mile south of the harbour. It was blowing a whole gale from the West at the time...
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DECEMBER 25TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. The crew of an R.A.F. aeroplane had baled out and some of the airmen had come safely down. A search was made for three who were missing, but without success, and at dawn the men were found...
Elizabeth Ann 50-002 Seen Astern of Sir William Arnold 52-02 at Guernsey In August Photograph By Courtesy of Brian Green
Elizabeth Ann, 50-002, seen astern of Sir William Arnold, 52-02, at Guernsey in August. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Brian Green. - View image in PDF
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Brighton and Shoreham Harbour: Early in the evening of September 15, 1983, when a force 8 gale, gusting to strong gale, force 9, was blowing from the south west and the sea was very rough, a swimmer was reported in difficulties between...
Canoes
Swanage, Dorset. At 10.7 on the morning of the 17th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the assistant honor- ary secretary that four canoes on passage from Swanage to Poole appeared to be having difficulty in rounding the Old Harry Rock....