LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of Foreign Life-Boats to British Vessels In 1932
IT is hoped in future to publish each year in the summer number of The Life-boat, the record of the services of foreign life-boats to British vessels during the previous year. The record for 1932 is as follows : The United State* of...
Category: Services
Realf (3)
New Brighton, Cheshire; Beaumaris, and Moelfre, Anglesey ; Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire ; and Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.
—25th February. Early in the morning the tanker Realf, of London, which was bound for Liverpool, in...
Rescue By Irish Currach
Two Irishmen, neither in the regular service of the Institution, have each been awarded bronze medals for an unusual and gallant rescue carried out on the morning of 29th June, i964,atMeenogahane, Co. Kerry. The two men are Mr. Patrick O'...
Category: Services
Tijl Uilenspiegel
Six lifeboats in search for missing Belgian trawler The new Tyne class lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, had a testing time during her first service, in a search for a missing Belgian trawler which lasted for 11 hours in Force 7 winds and...
A Helicopter (1)
Helicopter crash A MAYDAY distress call from the cockle boat Vallan reporting seeing a helicopter crash on Gat Sand, in the Wash, was intercepted by Yarmouth Coastguard at 1424 on Sunday June 26. A helicopter from RAF Coltishall just...
Vamoss II
Yacht saved BRIXHAM COASTGUARD contacted Exmouth lifeboat station on the morning of Friday June 21, 1985 with the news that a yacht was in difficulties one mile off shore to the east of Sidmouth. Six minutes later, at 1046, the station's...
Spotter's Guide
Back by popular demand, TTra Lifeboat brings you the definitive guide to all operational RNLI lifeboat classes - starting this issue with the all-weather lifeboats… Severn The Severn is the largest of the fleet and Is designed to lie afloat....
Category: Articles
Grand designs for a lifeboat station
There’s been a lifeboat station in the picturesque town of Tenby, in south west Wales, for 160 years – but it’s not always been in the same place
The station was established in 1852 by the...
Category: Articles
A Rescue In An Irish Curragh
ON the 2nd September, 1932, two men had gone out from Dooey, Co. Donegal, in a curragh, to lift lobster-pots. The wind increased, and a heavy sea swamped and capsized the curragh.
Their cries for help were heard, and two...
Category: Articles
A Sailing Boat
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire, and Anstruther,, Fifeshire.—At 7.30 in the evening of the 26th of September, 1948, the Musselburgh police telephoned to the Dunbar life-boat station that a sailing boat with five boys on board had been driven out to...