LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Continued from Page 175
Big problems with little ships I was fascinated to read about the 34 calls to which the Poole lifeboat responded on August Bank Holiday last year. It certainly sounds like the record for one station.
Another interesting set...
Category: Correspondence
Surf Boards
Surfer saved by Atlantic after night search in severe weather The Thanks of the Institution on Vellum has been awarded to Nigel Sweeny, the helmsman of St Catherine's (Jersey, Channel Islands) lifeboat during a night service in severe...
Ships Which "Pass By on the Other Side."
an act of common humanity at what would seem a trifling cost ? The reasons operating on the mind of the man who thus " passes by on the other side " are these: public journals accounts given by sailors j l - That the loss of...
Category: Articles
Get Splashed Hall of Fame
The decision to find an overall winner was extremely difficult but in the end the category winners were: Catshill Rainbows, Bromsgrove Remember the Four Point Water Safety Code 13), Swanage Middle School, Swanage Home Education Advisory...
Category: Articles
The Lifeboat Service - Past and Present
725 Years Ago The following item was first published in THE LIFEBOAT of January, 1861.
VALUE OF BAROMETRICAL INDICATION.
ON the occasion of the hurricane which swept the island of St. Kilda, in the...
Category: Articles
D Class In Search for Cliff Fall Victim
D class in search for cliff fall Victim Borth-West Division Borth 's Dclass inflatable is pictured under the cliffs about half a mile from the station on 10 June 1989, co-ordinating the helicopter evacuation of a young girl who had... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
Father and son trapped in cave Adifficult and dangerous service by Port Isaac's D class inshore lifeboat has led to the award of the RNLI's Thanks on Vellum to her helmsman Kevin Dingle and to a crew member, Mike Edkins.
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Category: Services
Hare and Hounds Pub
Roll out the barrel! That is exactly what eight customers of the Hare and Hounds pub at Dore, near Sheffield did.
The eight, working in pairs, pushed a 36-gallon beer barrel filled with water from the pub to Whitby lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Val of Sandness, Norway
During a gale from the S.E., and in a heavy sea, on the 23rd Jan., a schooner was observed to run into St. Andrew's Bay at daybreak, in the di- rection of the West Sands, and close to the broken water. On a gun being fired to warn her of...
Letters (From Page 208)
Letters (from page 208) as crew, was out on service for If hours.
First she towed to safety two fishing dinghies, both with swamped outboard engines and both with four people aboard; one was taken to the weather shore at...
Category: Correspondence