LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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DIFFICULT PASSAGE TO NORTHERN ISLAND Aith, Shetlands. At 6.50 on the evening of the 8th February, 1962, a doctor in Walls informed the honorary secretary that he had received an urgent call from a nurse on Foula Island for him to attend a...
Helping Hand
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 11.5 on the morning of the 21st of August, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message that a trawler had engine trouble between no. 2 and no. 3 buoys eight miles off Tenby. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was...
Portpatrick January 8 1988:
PORTPATRICK, January 8, 1988: with her propeller fouled by her fishing gear, MFV Dumnonia was drifting on to a lee shore, four miles away in a force 8 gale and in darkness. Portpatrick's 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat Douglas Carrie... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Boat
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 6.10 on the evening of the 27th of October, 1960, the local police informed the honorary secretary that cries for help could be heard from the entrance to the river Axe. The life-boat Fifi and Charles...
Fond farewell to volunteering trio
Having given almost two-thirds of a century to the RNLI between them, three Scottish volunteers are retiring this year. After clocking up 14 years (and 6,625 nautical miles), Peter ‘Ped’ McKinnon is retiring from his role as full-time...
Category: Articles
Giusto
In response to signals and a message received by telephone on the 25th October the Life-boat Aldeburgh was launched at 1.30 A.M. and sailed to the Shipwash S*nd.
The barque Giusto, of Trieste, bound from Sundswall for Cape...
Martlet
It may have been a fairly straightforward service but there were some interesting sidelines. In the words of Captain Cowell, the station's honorary secretary at Douglas in the Isle of Man: 'At 1055 on Sunday 1 June the lifeboat,...
Karron
Blyth, Northumberland - At 5.28 p.m.
on 24th September, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that flares had been seen one and a half miles off Blyth beach. The IRB was launched at 5.29 in a gentle south...
Tadpole
Walmer, Kent. At 1.15 on the after- noon of the 3rd September, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorarysecretary a report that a sailing yacht with a number of people on board was aground on the rocks near the Royal Marines rifle range...
Oscilla
St. Marys, Scilly Islands - At 9.43 a.m. on 21st October, 1968, the honorary secretary learnt that the captain of the tanker Oscilla was in a coma and had to be brought ashore.
The life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter, with a...