AUGUST 27TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 11.30 P.M. a message was received from the resident naval officer that a vessel eight miles from Kinnaird Head required help. A fresh W.N.W. wind was blowing, and the sea was choppy. At 11.40 P.M...
Dear Editor, I have been involved with or hanging around lifeboats since 1946 and have a fundraising silver badge.
The feature 'Lifeboating - an education' in the spring issue of the Lifeboat sparked off the...
Category: Correspondence
BY the time this article reaches the readers of the Life-boat Journal, the " Life- boat Saturday " season for the year 1896 will be practically over, so that we are in a position to gauge pretty accurately the advancement which has...
Category: Articles
'At 0600 on Friday, October 24, 1975, an oil tanker struck a submerged object off Studland Bay, Dorset, and 200 tons of oil spilled into the sea . . . . Miles of beaches, and marine and bird life, were threatened by what looked like a...
Category: Articles
Tug on fire THAMES COASTGUARD informed Southend- on-Sea lifeboat station at 1130 on Saturday March 21, 1981. that the tug Laity Fwas on fire near No 3 Sea Reach Buoy. The crew assembled and took the transport down Southend Pier and at 1148...
THE VALUE OF WIRELESS Selsey, Sussex.—At 8.8. in the even- ing of the 15th of April, 1947, the Selsey coastguard reported that on the previous evening a motor launch with a small boat in tow had anchored one and a half miles south of Shelley...
Great' Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk; and Lowestoft, and Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—About 6.30 in the evening, on the 7th of June, 1950, an American Superfortress aeroplane crashed eight miles north-north-east of Smith's...
An invitation to me visit id discover the world of lifeboats..Few visitors to the seaside would think of a lifeboat station as a place to visit. But, as the operation and housing of a lifeboat is an essential seafront activity, many...
Category: Articles
Around 400 people drown in the UK every year; a further 140 in Ireland. So what is the RNLI doing about it?
Our courageous volunteer lifeboat crews, lifeguards and flood rescue teams...
Category: Articles
Fishermen saved after 20 hours in ferocious blizzard It took a joint effort by the Mallaig and Kyle of Lochalsh lifeboats, RAF and coastguard helicopters and local fishermen to locate two friends who got lost while out whelking on 27...