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
United States Life-Saving Service
WE learn from the Annual Report of the United States Life-saving Service lately issued that on the 30th of June, 1887, there were 218 stations, 166 being on the Atlantic, 44 on the Lakes, seven on the Pacific, and one at the Falls of the...
Category: Services
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obeerm.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, " L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in...
Category: Medals
Rito (1)
Submerged object struck HM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Filey lifeboat station at 2048 on Tuesday December 20, 1983, that the coaster Rito was in difficulty three miles north east of Filey Brigg.
Water was...
Guy and Clare Hunter St.Mary's 46Ft 9In Watson Lifeboat on Service During Ike Fustnet Storm Photograph By Courtesy of Rnas Culdrose
Guy and Clare Hunter, Sti Mary's 46ft 9in Watson lifeboat, on service during ike Fustnet storm. photograph by courtesy of RNAS Culdrose. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Left) the 35Ft 6In Liverpool Class Lifeboat Aguila Wren on Station at Aberystwyth from 1951 to 1964 Returning from a Service Call
(Left) The 35ft 6in Liverpool class lifeboat Aguila Wren, on station at Aberystwyth from 1951 to 1964, returning from a service call.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Effecting Communication With Stranded Vessels
THE mortar and rocket apparatus around the coasts of the United Kingdom, as stated in an early number of this Journal, is for the most part under the charge of the Coast- guard, who have frequently performed in- valuable services with it,...
Category: Articles
The Boulmer Life-Boat Robert and Dorothy Hardcastle Being Waved Away on 1st April 1968 When She Left Her Station for the Last Time
The Boulmer life-boat Robert and Dorothy Hardcastle being waved away on 1st April, 1968, when she left her station for the last time.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Barbara
At 4.45 P.M. on the 22nd February, the barometer having suddenly dropped to 28 • 2, with a full gale of wind from west, the schooner Barbara, which was lying in Scrabster Roads, made signals of dis- tress. The crew of the Life-boat Co-...
An East Coast Gale
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 120 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 54 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to February 15th, 1934 - ... 63,615 An East Coast Gale.
ON 13th December an...
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