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Brave new world

Date: Autumn 2013

Volume: 61

Issue: 605 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2013

Lifesavers from across Asia and Africa are sharing new-found skills with their lifesaving organisations, thanks to a course run by the RNLI.

An estimated 1.2M people drown around the world every year – more than the number...

Category: Articles

Sea King

Date: December 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 406

YACHT'S CREW FOUND EXHAUSTED Hastings, Sussex. Following a telephone call from the motor mechanic to the honorary secretary at 5.0 on the afternoon of Tuesday the 3rd September, 1963, it was decided to launch the lifeboat M.T.C.,...

Pass-o-Leny (1)

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

DEC. 1ST. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE, AND NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 8.45 A.M. the Lytham secondcoxswain reported a vessel ashore by Peet’s Light, south of the 12th Mile Beacon. A S.W.

gale was blowing, with a heavy...

Seamist

Date: Winter 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 483

Damaged steering YARMOUTH COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat station at 0236 on Monday May 3, 1982, that the yacht Seamist of Rhu had sustained damage to her steering gear two hours earlier on...

Lady Sheena

Date: December 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 418

Margate, Kent - At 9.39 p.m. on nth July, 1966, a sick man on board the m.v.

Lady Sheena, near the east Margate buoy, required medical assistance. At 9.51 a further message requested that the lifeboat take a doctor to the...

Amy II (2)

Date: Autumn 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 356

Torbay, Devon.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 18th of November, 1950, the Brixham coastguard reported a small yacht in a dangerous position two miles off Beesands, apparently in need of help. At 12.55 the life-boat George Shee...

John Batchelor

Date: Summer 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 497

John Batchelor (above), a member of Mudeford lifeboat crew runs the fresh fish stall on the quayside and has produced a fish cookbook to raise funds for the station. Mr Batchelor retires from active lifeboat duty in four years time and it is... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Sailboard

Date: Autumn 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 574

Boy helps save windsurfer Eleven-year-old Ryan Gratton was out fishing with his grandfather on 4 August when they spotted a windsurfer in difficulty. From their boat, Ryan's grandfather helped the windsurfer and Ryan radioed Dover...

Prince Pops In

Date: Winter 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 547

During his tour of Wales last July, Prince Charles spent the day in Holyhead and at RAF Valley near Trearddur Bay. Following official duties and lunch the Prince made an informal walkabout amongst the public who were enjoying a 'Families... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

L’Appel-de-Lemar

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

MAY 2ND. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.

During the evening the French fishing vessel L’Appel-de-Lemar, while on passage from Newlyn to Fleetwood, with a crew of five, grounded on St. Bernard’s Wharf about half a mile...