LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pulling a Bird!
Denis Twomey, RNLI area organiser for the South West, and 74 students from Bristol University Air Squadron recently managed to pull a 65 tonne Hercules aircraft a mile along runway 24 at RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire.
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Category: Photographs
Langton County Primary School Malton North Yorkshire
Hush money: during one Monday in July Lang/on County Primary School, Ma/ton, North Yorkshire, must have been the quietest school in the country. A sponsored silence was held, with junior pupils being quiet for an hour while the infants kept... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailboard
Windsurfer untangled In winds of up to force 8, Bridlington's D class lifeboat Lord Feoffees III launched to assist a windsurfer in trouble early in the afternoon of 20 March 2004. After a rough passage, Helmsman Duncan Stewart and Crew...
Jane
AUG. 16TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At 2 A.M. a message was received from the Wyke Regis coastguard that a small yacht was showing red flares a quarter of a mile east of Portland Bill. The weather was fine and the sea calm. The...
Fishing Cobles (2)
DEC. 26TH. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBER.
LAND. During the morning a strong N.E.
breeze was blowing with a rough sea, and anxiety was felt for the safety of three fishing cobles. There was a heavy swell at the...
Fishing Cobles
JANUARY 29TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning, while thirteen Filey fishing cobles were at sea, a strong N.E.
wind sprang up. All the regular life-boat crew were out fishing, but ex-coxswain R. C....
Excelsior
AUGUST 15TH. - STROMNESS, ORKNEYS.
At 4.15 P.M. coastwatchers reported by telephone that the motor fishing boat Excelsior, of Stromness, with a crew of three, was overdue, and had last been seen three miles off. The weather...
A Rowing Boat (2)
SEPTEMBER 14TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
During the afternoon a man and a woman in a rowing boat from Benllech were rarried out to sea by the tide and a strong S.W. wind, and the motor life-boat G.W. was launched at 3.30 P.M....
Pioneer
APRIL 1ST. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND.
The motor-boat Pioneer left at 1.30 in the afternoon for Coquet Island to exchange lighthouse keepers. There was a dense fog. The Pioneer had not returned at five o’clock and was then two...
A Dinghy (3)
JULY 27TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
At 5.15 in the afternoon signals of distress were seen from Benllech and at 5.30 the motor life-boat G.W. was launched. The sea was rough, with a strong south-westerly wind blowing. The...