LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SEA Check under way The RNLI's Sea Safety team has been helping to educate sea users of all kinds since the initiative was first launched some four years ago, but it is now breaking new ground with its SEA Check scheme.

Swanage, Dorset.—9th September.

A man was reported to be marooned near Old Harry Rocks, but no trace of him could be found.—Rewards, £13 19s..

Galway Bay. At 4 p.m. on i3th November, 1965, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take a sick man from the Inishmaan island to the mainland for hospital treatment, as no other suitable boat was available. The...

MATERNITY CASE At 5.10 a.m. on 22nd May, 1966, the doctor informed the honorary secretary that there was an expectant mother who needed to be transferred to hospital at South Uist. The life-boat R.A. Colby Cubbin No. 3 was launched at 5.45...

JUNE 3RD. - DOVER, KENT. During the morning six children belonging to the Dover garrison were cut off by the tide under Shakespeare Cliff. A moderate N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor boarding boat William Myatt, attached to...

FEBRUARY 28TH. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, ESSEX. Red flares had been reported, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £15 15s..

Contents 39 Summary of Accounts for 1979 40 Volume XLVII Lifeboat Services 41 JN UlTlDer 4 IL The Reconstruction of Tenby Lifeboat House, by Ian Haken 47 The Brede: prototype of a new lifeboat based on the Lochin 33 48 Chairman: Here and...

Brothers and stations uniteWhen Red Bay lifeboat crew were paged, there was no immediate threat to life for the couple on the yacht, Chtoe. Yet at Red Bay station brothers Tom and Paddy McLaughlin remember thinking: 'It was blowing a...