LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Dinghy
Moelfre, Anglesey - At 1.25 p.m. on 24th May, 1970, the coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy was rapidly drifting out to sea about four miles south east of the coastguard lookout. As the IRB was already at sea assisting a capsized yacht...
Purr Purr
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 6.21 a.m.
on 26th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had been sighted in difficulties eight miles west by south of the Skerries lighthouse. The life-boat Lady...
Sail
Sail
by James Patterson and Howard Roughan
Review by
Carol Waterkeyn
American best-selling author James Patterson has teamed up for the second time with fellow countryman and writer...
Category: Articles
Top awards for our lifesavers
The Pride of Britain Awards brought RNLI lifesaving to the attention of millions at the end of October when Hartlepool RNLI volunteers received the ITV Daybreak Emergency Services Award.
The volunteers and Hartlepool...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
MARCH No. 1 Life-boat Area Wick, Caithness - At 8.52 p.m. on 27th March, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a trawler had grounded hard and fast on the Louther Skerries. At 9.10 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was...
Category: Services
Around the Coast
A LARGE CROWD gathered at Selsey on April 25 for the handing over and dedication of the station's new D class lifeboat which is the gift of Selsey Lions Club. The lifeboat was presented by Mr A. E. Ryan, president of Selsey Lions, to...
Category: Articles
Cruser and Raven
About half-past four on the 7th July two small yawl-rigged yachts, the Cruiser and Raven, were observed by Holy Island fishermen to be running south before the wind off Berwick.
About 7 P.M. it was seen that these vessels...
Lifeboat Services
North Western Division Storm A YACHT IN DISTRESS 23 nautical miles south west of Skerries Lighthouse was reported to the honorary secretary of Holyhead lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1310 on Saturday, September 11, 1976. The bulk...
Category: Services
Lives on the line
As storms lashed our coasts last Christmas, a crew of sailors found themselves without engine or sail power – and drifting into the path of a 218m cruise liner …
When the Cowes lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Zircon (1)
On the bar THE SERVICE BY FWLLHELi lifeboat and Criccieth ILB to the yacht Zircon during the early hours of September 1, 1977, was reported in the winter 1977/78 issue of THE LIFEBOAT. Zircon, with four people on board, had run aground...