LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Guy and Clare Hunter In Gale Force Winds Standing By the \Acht Braemar Before Taking Her In Tow May 22 1967
Guy and Clare Hunter, in gale force winds, standing by the acht Braemar before taking her in tow. May 22, 1967. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Bowman Richard Lethbridge. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
ALL SHOOK UP
Lifeboat volunteers faced an exhausting 12-hour shift when a yachtsman was stranded 50 miles off the coast in appalling weather
It was just before 8am and the start of a blustery August weekend in Castletownbere. Coxswain...
Category: Articles
The Wreck of the "Islander."
A FULL account appeared in the last issue of The Lifeboat of the wreck of the yacht Islander, with the loss of six lives, and of the gallant efforts made from the shore by several men to rescue the crew when the vacht was almost on the rocks...
Category: Articles
RESCUE
Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year (see launches on page 34). Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the list below for more reports:
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Category: Articles
Lutine
Dover, Kent.—At 11.30 on the night of the 9th of June, 1954, Lloyd'ssignal station reported that a vacht, was being driven ashore in the Camber and was burning red flares. The sea was rough, with a moderate south- westerly gale blowing...
Scotland Community News
Welcome to your community news for Scotland. For all the latest from where you are, head to RNLI.org/news
Words: Anna Burn. Photos: Kathryn Campbell, Quarriers Carer Support Service,
RNLI/(Buckie, Graham...
Category: Articles
Torrish
TOW FOR YACHT IN STRONG GALE Anstruther, Fife. At 5.47 on the morning of the 24th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was drifting two miles south-east-by-south from Fifeness.
The...
Albino
Yacht stranded ON PASSAGE from the Isle of Whithorn to Kippford on Wednesday, August 24, the 23' yacht Albino mistook the entry into the Urr Estuary and went to the west of Almorness Point, driving into the shallow Orchardton Bay. On...
Vassan Girl
YACHT AGROUND North Foreland radio station reported at 3.31 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, that a yacht was aground one and a half miles west of Mid Barrow lightvessel. No distress signals had been fired by the yacht but she had a heavy list. The...
Yachts and Pleasure Boats Represent Almost 60% of Lifeboat Launches
Yachts and pleasure boats represent almost 60% of lifeboat launches, so these were the first target for the RNLI's Sea Safety initiative. Even the most well-found vessel can find herself in trouble, but the aim of the initiative is to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs