LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

West Division Breeches buoy HOLYHEAD COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Moelfre lifeboat station at 0945 on Sunday August 29, 1982, that a distress call had been received from a small boat aground on rocks at Dulas Island, two...

WHITBY.—At 11.45 A.M. on the 6th December, during a strong gale from the E.N.E. and a heavy sea, with snow, the brig Star of Hope, of and for Newcastle from Dieppe, in ballast, became embayed between Whitby and Upgang Rocks. She then ran for...

Rolling in money Fiona Kennedy, Eastleigh & District branch chairman, raised £1,200 from a sponsored 10 mile roller blade marathon in August.

This was no mean feat for someone who described herself on her sponsor...

Annual Meetings.

ALNWICK.—On 15th February, Canon Manby presided in the absence of the Chairman, Sir Francis E. Walker, Bt. The Treasurer's report for the year ended 30th September, 1922, which was carried, showed the...

RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY.—About 1 A.M. on the 3rd January, the barque Clifton, of Liverpool, was wrecked on Rhosneigir rocks. It being then moderately smooth, the crew remained by the ship in the hope of floating her off; but about 1 P.M., in...

German tug, Dutch coaster ON THE AFTERNOON of Tuesday January 3, 1984, the West German tug Fairplay X fouled her propeller in St Ives Bay while trying to pass a towline to the Netherlands coaster Orca; the coaster, her engine disabled, had...

'One man can launch the Atlantic in less than a minute' 'Most of our work here is out-and-grab stuff,' said Atlantic Helmsman Richard Pearce as we looked at the floating boathouse at his station in Brighton Marina, 'and...

Lifeboats stand-by stranded cargo vessel in severe weatherThe chairman of the RNLI has written a letter of thanks to the coxswains and crews of the Padstow and St Ives lifeboats following a very difficult operation in storm-force winds.At...