LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Achilles
Three saved from disabled fishing vessel in gale and severe seasLerwick lifeboat left her moorings at 0500 on Friday 4 November 1994, a little over ten minutes after first hearing from Shetland coastguard that the fishing vessel Achilles had...
Marathon Effort
The Flora London Marathon is one of the UK’s most breathtaking fundraising events and this year 200 people ran as part of Team RNLI. Their combined and considerable efforts raised approximately £300,000, most of which will go towards...
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A Cabin Cruiser (1)
Cabin cruiser on bar THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Blyth lifeboat station was informed by Coastguard Tyne at 1440 on Sunday, August 29, 1976, that two swimmers had been swept out to sea off Cambois; a girl bather had been picked up by a...
Prize-Winning Essay
THE following essay was adjudged the best in a competition organised by the Institution and open to boys and girls up to the age of eleven in Great Britain and Ireland. It was written by Winefride Claire Davies, of the Old Colwyn County...
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Life-Saving Hammocks
AMONGST the various articles designed to save life on occasions of disaster to ships, perhaps one of the most natural was a seaman's bed or mattress, composed of buoyant materials. Since the space on shipboard for the stowage of anything...
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Eureka
SEPT. 3RD. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At about 4.10 A.M. it was reported that a vessel was showing distress signals about one and a half miles south of Walton Pier. The weather was clear with a strong breeze. The sea was rather rough. The...
Arctic Cavalier
SICK MAN IN TRAWLER At 11.45 a.m. on nth December, 1963,the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the pilot boat was going to land a sick man from the trawler Arctic Cavalier at 1.30 p.m. In view of the weather the life-boat crew...
Puffin
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—At 8.30 P.M., on the 13th August, the Albert Victor Lifeboat put off to the assistance of the yacht Puffin, of Berwick, which was brought up in a dangerous position off Spittal Beach. The owner and crew of the yacht having...
Annie
SALCOMBE.—On the 16th January, at 2 A.M., the barquentine Annie, of Salcombe, bound from Bahia with a cargo of sugar, struck on Salcombe Bar during stormy weather. The Rescue Life-boat went to her assistance and brought ashore the master and...
Two Fishing Cobles
While the fishing cobles were I out on the 3rd April the S.E. breeze increased and the sea became very heavy. Two cobles nearly foundered i when coming in, and as it was feared that the remainder would come to grief, the Life...