LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Feature: Launching Saves Lives
The pages of the Lifeboat feature many brave and skilful rescues but it is easy to overlook that, before a lifeboat reaches a casualty, just launching can be a demanding task If all lifeboat stations were based in easily accessible harbours...
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Marlborough
JANUARY 26TH - 30TH and FEBRUARY 5TH.
- FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
During these days the Fraserburgh life-boat performed a number of unusual services because of a very severe snow storm, which continued...
Zeearend, Valeria and Ellora
AUGUST 12TH. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.
At 4.5 in the morning a message was received from the king’s harbour master that a yacht was drifting dangerously near the rocks on the southern shore. A south-westerly gale was blowing and...
Appeal updates
After 3 years of fundraising, Angle’s new Tamar class lifeboat Mark Mason is now on service at the Pembrokeshire station.
The fundraising was begun at grassroots level, with the launch of the Tamar4Angle appeal locally and...
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Four Rowing Boats
JULY 20TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. The life-boat crew had assembled to take the life-boat to Dartmouth for the life-boat flag day there, when, at 12.56 in the afternoon, Brixham coastguard reported a small boat in Babbacombe Bay in need of help,...
Your vote counted!
Crew members at eight lifeboat stations are getting new lifesaving kit thanks to RNLI supporters who took part in the Vote that Counts. Organised by the People’s Postcode Lottery charity, the competition gave supporters a chance to cast...
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Elizabeth, of Cardigan
On the 23rd March, during a heavy gale of wind, the smack Elizabeth, of Cardigan, got under weigh to cross the Bar, but in doing so, her jib sheet was blown away.
She then let go her two anchors; but the chains parted, and...
A Naval Pinnace (2)
SEPTEMBER 1 0TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND PORT PATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
At 1.10 in the afternoon the coastguard reported to the Girvan lifeboat station that a naval pinnace was flying a distress signal off Ballantrae. The...
M.V. Futurity and Little Slam (1)
Collision A COLLISION IN DENSE FOG between MV Futurity and the motorboat Little Slam some three miles south east of Littlehampton was reported to the honorary secretary of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat station at 1510 on Saturday May 12, 1979....
Membership News
Can you help? A message from Corporate Fundraising Manager Barbara Trousdell: Do you have a few hours to spare for a couple of weeks a year? Would you like to become involved in making sure local promotions in aid of the Institution run...
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