LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Rescue of sailor leaves no room for error When a lone sailor found himself in trouble in Runswick Bay last September, it took close cooperation between the crews of the Staithes and Runswick inshore lifeboat and the Whitby all-weather...
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Rescue of sailor leaves no room for error When a lone sailor found himself in trouble in Runswick Bay last September, it took close cooperation between the crews of the Staithes and Runswick inshore lifeboat and the Whitby all-weather...
From the Director
Brian Miles CBE looks back on an eventful 1995 1995 proved to be yet another busy and eventful twelve months for everyone involved with the RNLI.
A highlight had to be the 17th Conference of the International Lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 6th February, 1879: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspond- ence, and Wreck...
Category: Committee
Daring innovation
To his friends and colleagues, David Stogdon appeared to live entirely without fear yet he was a survivor of at least two near-death experiences. In 1940, during the Second World War, the destroyer Brazen sank underneath the young naval...
Category: Articles
The Bridlington Cobles Serene, Eva Ann and Challenge (2)
Knockdown THE COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Flamborough lifeboat station on Monday January 23, 1984, that three Bridlington cobles, Serene, Eva Ann and Challenge, had been caught in worsening weather north of...
Truganini
Wednesday Catamaran caught out A BOAT SIGHTED in exceptionally heavy seas on the south west part of West Hoyle Bank and needing help was reported to the honorary secretary of Hoylake lifeboat station at 0845 on Thursday September 20, 1979,...
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Category: Advertisement
Loch Long, of Aberdeen
St. Andrews.
In the middle of the night of March 8th the steam trawler Loch Long, of Aberdeen, went ashore in a heavy snow squall on the reef of rocks known as Balcomie Briggs. A gale was blowing; the sea was rough ; and...
The Year 1939
IN 1939 the number of launches on service and the number of lives rescued were both the largest in the history of the Institution.
There were 685 launches, that is 200 more than the 485 launches in 1938, which was up to...
Category: Services