LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Feeling the force
Shetland Coastguard contacted Lerwick Lifeboat Operations Manager Malcolm Craigie at around 1.45pm on the afternoon of Saturday 25 October 2008. Two large fishing boats were in trouble in Baltasound, 40 miles north of the station – could the...
Category: Articles
Rock and roller rescue
During a surfing competition, one bodyboarder got more excitement than he’d bargained for
The setting
During the Volcom surfing contest on 10 September...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
Last March Hayling Island station branched raised £1,008 with a ball Sinah Warren in aid of the Mountbatten of Burma appeal which was well supported by Islanders, by members of local sailing clubs and by members of neighbouring...
Category: Donations
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Trapped_men rescued from pier supports Sometimes the need to save a life over-rides all other considerations...
When Eastbourne lifeboat station heard that a person was trapped on a narrow ledge under Eastbourne Pier it was...
Where the Rocks and the Tide Race Meet Off the Lizard Seen from the Lizard-Cadgwith Life-Boat. (See Page 240 'Race Casualty'.)
Where the rocks and the tide race meet off the Lizard seen from the Lizard-Cadgwith life-boat. (See page 240 'Race Casualty'.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cythara
Among rocks A YACHT firing red flares near Green Island was reported by Police HQ at 0326 on Saturday September 3, 1983, to the deputy assistant harbour master at St Helier, who is also deputy launching authority of St Helier lifeboat...
Books
• To say that the colour photographs which fill Lifeboat (Franklin Watts) are enough to sell the book on its own is to do an injustice to Heather Deane's clear and concise description of the RNLI, how it works, what it comprises and how...
Category: Articles
Calaharis and Moss Rose, and White Knight
North Sea Hurricane FORCE 9-10 north north east wind; rough sea with a heavy swell; low water; visibility down to about a half to one mile on an overcast morning with frequent hail and snow squalls; Flamborough lifeboat already at sea...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BIDEFORD.—A new life-boat 34 feet long, and fitted to row either with six oars singlebanked, or twelve short oars double-banked, has been placed at Appledore, near Bideford, in lieu of a smaller one previously there. The cost of the boat was...
Category: Articles
S.S. Royal Crown
JANUARY 30TH. - LOWESTOFT, AND SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK. At 7.15 P.M. a message was received at Lowestoft from the coastguard that a boat belonging to the S.S. Royal Crown, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had come ashore eight miles south of Lowestoft, and...