LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fred Olsen Fund Another
Fred Olsen fund another Fred Olsen, who have been fantastic supporters of the RNLI for several years, are also very close to completing the funding of another Atlantic 75. In fact, Its probably more accurate to say that the passengers and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters
Abigail revisited Readers of the Winter 2003/04 edition of the Lifeboat may remember a letter from Alan Jones recounting his airlift from the yacht Abigail with a suspected heart attack. He wrote with some embarrassment at eventually being...
Category: Correspondence
Two Sisters (2)
JUNE 19TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 2.23 P.M the coastguard reported a fishing boat showing signals of distress off Newbiggin. As the Newbiggin life-boat was off service, the Blyth motor life-boat Joseph Adlam was...
Reiger
DECEMBER 2ND. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 6.15 in the morning the coastguard reported that a vessel three miles south-east of St. Ives Head had signalled that she was sinking. A moderate north-west wind was blowing, with a...
Duck, of Union Hall, Skibbereen
MAY 16TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK.
At 8.43 at night it was reported from Glandore that the fishing boat Duck, of Union Hall, Skibbereen, which had put out from Glandore, had not returned from fishing off Galley Head. A...
Dawn
AUGUST 27TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 6.30 in the evening the coxswain received a telephone call from the Colwyn Bay police that a boat was in distress one and a half miles off Colwyn pier.
A fresh...
Molly
DECEMBER 29TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At about noon some small fishing boats were seen south of the harbour. A strong northwesterly wind was blowing, with a very rough sea and snow squalls. The coastguard kept them in view,...
Fishermen and Fishing-Boats
Although this Journal is chiefly intended to circulate information respecting life-boats and other means of saving life from ship- wreck, we cannot overlook the fact that in many, if not in most cases, it is to fisher- men we must look to...
Category: Articles
Royal Human Society Award
Anstruther Lifeboat Crew Member Barry Gourlay has received an award from the Royal Humane Society for his rescue of a capsized kayaker on 19 September 2010. Barry was out for a Sunday walk with his wife and daughter when he spotted the man...
Category: Articles
Dear Reader
As we draw into the last quarter of 2012, we can reflect on a year of awards and celebrations.
Our Patron continued her travels around the RNLI (see page 4), we appointed an inspiring new Council member (28), and...
Category: Articles