LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of French Life-Boats
WE have much pleasure in extracting from the French Life-boat Journal the following interesting account of services performed by the life-boats of the " Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages," during the first quarter of the...
Category: Services
Called to a Man Overboard from a 14' Boat Offtunstall on April 18 In Moderate to Fresh North-Easterly Breezes and Rough Sea Withernsea Crew Members and Shore H
Called to a man overboard from a 14' boat offTunstall on April 18 in moderate to fresh north-easterly breezes and rough sea, Withernsea crew members and shore helpers rushed the ILB down to the surf.
She was away within... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Presidential Visit
HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, is pictured talking to (from left to right) crew member John Gorman, and Helmsmen Geraint Wheeler, Tom Ridgway, Sandro James and Cliff Bates all of Aberystwyth during a two day tour of Cardigan... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
SICK SKIPPER
FRASERBURGH | 29 NOVEMBER
Volunteer crew at Fraserburgh acted quickly when a skipper of a nearby fishing boat made an emergency call for help after falling ill. The crew aboard the all-weather lifeboat left the harbour immediately...
Category: Services
Rescue from Inside Smugglers' Cave
AT 6.35 on the evening of the 9th of August, 1958, the honorary secretary of the St. Ives life-boat station, Captain W. H. H. Treloar, learnt from the police that four people needed help in Smugglers' Cave near Hellsmouth. The cave lies...
Category: Services
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BAD WEATHER CLIFF RESCUE WHEN, on 8th February, 1972, Mr J. J. Adams, honorary secretary, Hastings, Sussex, was told by the police at about 2.15 p.m. that a man had fallen over the cliff to the east of the harbour at a point known as...
Breach of the peace
When two teens were swept into a rough sea on 28 December 2009, one was washed straight back to safety. The other wasn’t so lucky, but help was on its way
A south easterly force 6 was blowing on the south Devon coast. Seas...
Category: Articles
"Stand By Vessel."
Anchor Chanty.
BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CRAUFURD, R.N., honorary secretary of the Dungeness life-boat station.
" She therefore stood by the vessel until dawn."—Honorary Secretary's...
Category: Songs
An Ex-R.A.F. Boat and a Motor Fishing Vessel (1)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, and The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 10.45 on the night of the 26th of December, 1951, the Tenby coastguard telephoned the Tenby life-boat station that the Helwick Lightvessel had reported that an ex-R.A.F. boat, which...
The Storeyard's Children's Party
THE Eighth Christmas Party, given to poor children by the staff of the Institu- tion's Storeyard at Broomfield Street, Poplar, with the help of the staff at Headquarters, took place on 19th December at the Bromley Public...
Category: Articles