LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Teens adrift
12 July: Four teenagers and an adult found themselves powerless when their angling boat's engine failed. They were drifting towards rocks near Ardnamurchan Point, the most westerly part of the British...
Category: Articles
At the Sharp End
Short service iust 500 yards from station - but a surfer's life is saved Ashort but very difficult service by North Sunderland's D class inflatable lifeboat on 18 May 1996 undoubtedly saved the life of a surfer, and also led to the...
Category: Services
Greek Award to Selsey
THE Greek Government has awarded to the Selsey and Bognor motor life-boat its silver nautical medal for gallantry, in gratitude for the service to the steamer Menelaos, which was in distress on 2nd November, 1930.1 A gale was blowing, with a...
Category: Awards
Notes of the Quarter
THE first quarter of 1963 was a period in which a number of important advances were made in the develop- ment of life-boat design and in the task, which is a continuous one, of modernizing and re-equipping the life- boat service as a whole....
Category: Articles
News
Your guide to what's been going on in the world of the RNLI
INTERNATIONAL HEROES
The RNLI’s Future Leaders in Lifesaving programme has picked up a prestigious HERO Award from the International...
Category: Articles
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The great orange case search...Red Bay's C class lifeboat was involved in an unusual incident last Autumn when she was involved in the hunt for four cases of oranges...
However, there was more than a little method to...
Schesaplana (1)
Capsized motor cruiser THE DUTY COASTGUARD on watch in the lookout of Solent MRSC on the spring bankholiday Monday, May 25, reported at 1256 that a vessel had capsized in the vicinity of the Shingles Bank Elbow Buoy at the western approaches...
Candy
Early warning saves three The eagle eyes and quick thinking of RNLI tractor driver Philip Eaglen helped to ensure that a father and his two sons were rescued before it was too late.
At 3.30pm on 2 September 2000, Philip was...
48 Hours of Gale (From Page 250)
48 Hours of Gale (from page 250) Broughty Ferry: 1LB launched at 1700 in choppy seas and a fresh southeasterly wind to help a capsized dinghy one mile east of the station, The crew of three were landed and their boat towed to the...
Category: Services
Heinrich Gerdes, of Rostock
On the 22d March the schooner Heinrkh Gerdes, of Rostock, on running for the harbour of Berwick, struck on the bar, and was driven ashore south of the entrance to the Tweed. It was blowing a heavy gale from east-north-east, and there was a...