LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rowing Boat (2)
Eastbourne, Sussex - At 3.53 p.m.
on 3ist October, 1966, news was received that one of the local angling club's rowing boats was missing. She had last been seen drifting west, off Beachy Head, with two men on board. The...
Canoes
Canoes caught out WHILE ON EXERCISE, on Saturday May 15, Beaumaris ILB Blue Peter II learned, at 1350, that a group of 20 canoeists from the Nelson Outdoor Pursuit Centre at Llanfair were out in the Menai Straits opposite Moel-y-Don and had...
Solstad (1)
Broughty Ferry, Angus, and Aberdeen.
—10th October, 1939. The Swedish vessel Solstad, of Karlstad, had been reported in distress with her steering gear disabled, about fifteen miles S.E. of Montrose, and the Montrose motor...
Solstad (1)
OCT. 10TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS, AND ABERDEEN. The Swedish vessel Solstad, of Karlstad, had been reported in distress with her steering gear dis-abled, about fifteen miles S.E. of Montrose, and the Montrose motor life-boat was unable to...
A Dinghy
Quick response ON SEPTEMBER 18, 1983, Alexander Strutt, motor mechanic of Kirkwall's 70ft Clyde lifeboat, saw a single-handed dinghy capsize. Although her helmsman could right his boat, he could not keep her upright; a southerly near...
Day Dawn, of Lerwick
Lerwick, Shetlands - At 10.58 p.m.
on 8th May, 1967, it was reported that the motor fishing vessel Day Dawn of Lerwick had broken down off Bard Head, Bressay, and was in danger of being driven on to the rocks. The life-boat...
Port du Hurel
n complete contrast Alexander Coutanch was called out in a flat calm to another fishing vessel, Port du Hurel, when she struck rocks three miles SSE of the station on 17 July 1990.
Despite visibility officially descibed as...
Cullercoats: KATHY IS PRIDE OF BRITAIN
In October, RNLI volunteer fundraiser Kathy Blackman was named the ITV Tyne Tees Regional Fundraiser of the Year. Kathy was nominated by a member of Cullercoats lifeboat crew in recognition of her decades
of support. Kathy has...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The work of the Institution mainly consists of:— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways, wherever required on the coasts of the United Kingdom.
2. Payments...
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Cornish Appeal
The Cornish Life-boat Appeal got off to a good start on 30th May, 1972, when it was launched by the Bishop of Truro on behalf of the Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall at County Hall, Truro.
It was announced at the meeting that...
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