LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Keeping Watch
Portsmouth lifeboat volunteers Peter Slidel and Tina Parkinson were going about their daily lives on 27 February when a drama started to unfold before them.
Peter says: ‘I was enjoying a coffee at Tina’s burger van when I...
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Joan and Mary
JULY 20TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE. In the early morning the motor fishing boat Joan and Mary had gone out with a crew of three. As by evening she had not returned and no news had been received of another boat which had gone out to look for her,...
Flood alert
Volunteers from the RNLI’s Flood Rescue Team (FRT) evacuated people from their flooded homes in St Asaph, North Wales at the end of November. Crew members from lifeboat stations at Beaumaris, Conwy, Moelfre and Rhyl joined forces with...
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Stranded teens
Eight teenagers tried to walk from Pembrey Country Park to Burry Port Railway Station on 19 March and became stranded. One called a parent and was advised to stay put and wait for rescue. The parent dialled 999 and soon police, coastguards...
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‘THIS BRAVE OLD SEAMAN’
I thought you might be interested in the enclosed taken from The Seamen of the Downs by the Rev Thomas Treanor, c1890s.
‘… There is a Norse flavour...
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MBE for fundraiser
Last issue we reported on eight RNLI staff and volunteers who were honoured by HM The Queen in the 2015 New Year Honours list. We thought we’d captured them all, but unfortunately one slipped through the net: Chris Fonteyn MBE JP. Chris was...
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Starling, of Yarmouth
Numerous vessels were at anchor under Speeton Cliffs on the 5th Feb., when a gale of wind sprang up from the S.S.E., accompanied by a very heavy sea, and one of them, the schooner Starling, of Yarmouth, was seen approach- ing Filey with...
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JANUARY 30TH. - FLAMBOROUGH; YORKSHIRE. At about 12.45 P.M. the coastguard asked that the life-boat should be launched to search the steamship channel between Flamborough Head and Filey Brigg, as firing or explosions had been heard. An E.S.E...
Fishing Boats (4)
MCH. 28TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE. At 6.15AM. a message was received from the Anstruther coastguard that there was a heavy swell at the harbour entrance and that the fishing fleet was returning.
A moderate E.S.E. gale was...
A Piledriver
JULY 5TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 7.20 P .M. the coastguard reported two men were in danger on a-piledriver at Milford-on-Sea. A moderatesqually S.S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough breaking sea. The motor life-boat S.G.E. was...