LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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I’ve just experienced almost every kind of weather in one week. No, I’ve not been globe trotting, just holidaying in Cornwall. Waking variously to hot sunshine, chilly pea-souper, or lashing hail, I knew that whatever I chose to do, I’d meet...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats
PETERHEAD.—On the 3rd August the Peterhead Life-boat was launched, and was employed for many hours in assisting fishing vessels which, during a storm, were obliged to run for Peterhead Harbour.
The crew from one fishing...
Invermore, of Dublin (5)
Cloughey, Donaghadee, and Newcastle, Co. Down, and Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—On the 19th November, 1937, the disabled schooner Invermore, of Dublin, was picked up by the Cloughey and Donaghadee life-boats....
Cover Picture
Exercises at sea are part of the regular routine of every lifeboat station. On exercise the crew can familiarise themselves with the boat and with her lifesaving equipment, and, as a team, practise manoeuvres which, on service, may have to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hands Up!
Hands up! The Western Pioneers Show Team, a group of disabled and able-bodied people from West Wickhurn, 'held up' customers in aid of the RNLl. During a countrywide promotion each Texaco garage adopted a local charitv for three davs... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.M. Minesweeper 1172
OCTOBER 19TH. - ABERDEEN. At 8.20 at night information was received from the coastguard that H.M. Minesweeper 1172 was disabled three miles east-south-east of Gregness and in need of help. The harbour tug was not available, and at 9.5 the No...
Memorable holiday
4A family’s holiday took an unfortunate turn on 25 August when their cruiser ran aground, injuring two of the seven onboard. Lough Derg’s B class lifeboat Vera Skilton was launched into force 5 winds gusting to force 7. Two RNLI crew members...
Category: Articles
Doggy paddle
19 July: Blackpool, Lancashire When a dog got into difficulty near Blackpool’s North Pier, the lifeboat crew launched in their D class and brought the pet to safety, much to the gratitude of its owner. As well as...
Category: Articles
CONTAINER SHIP COLLISION
RAMSGATE | 13 NOVEMBER
It was an early Sunday morning wake-up call for Ramsgate’s lifeboat crew, when their pagers went off just before 8am. A small yacht had collided with a container ship 24 miles east of Ramsgate, and was...
Category: Services
Kingfisher IV
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 2.16 in the afternoon of the 19th of De- cember, 1948, a motor vessel informed Niton Radio Station of a fishing boat in. need of help nearly three miles out from Shoreham in a south- easterly direction, and the...