LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bridget Carmel
Half the power- but thiejob's still donenile some RNLI's services are carried out in extreme weather conditions the majority ' are more 'rotifine' but still require proven and reliable equipment in addition to a high...
A Powered 25ft Pleasure Craft
Family brought ashore ON THE EVENING OF August bank holiday Monday, August 25, 1986, the week of Hurricane Charlie, the honorary secretary of Weymouth lifeboat received a call from the coastguard to say that a family was marooned on their...
A Helicopter
Helicopter crash A MAYDAY distress call from the cockle boat Vallan reporting seeing a helicopter crash on Gat Sand, in the Wash, was intercepted by Yarmouth Coastguard at 1424 on Sunday June 26. A helicopter from RAF Coltishall just...
Good-Bye to a Life-Boat By R W Frazer
WHEN 1 first visited Ring, Co. Waterford, in 1925, the Helvick Life-boat was housed at road-level in a kind of hanger built out over the water on stilts. A barometer was fixed outside, with the two legends familiar to seamen—'First rise...
Category: Articles
Seven Men Rescued from Trawler Aground
FOUR minutes after midnight on I3th December, 1963, the coxswain of the Caister life-boat, J. R. Plummer, learnt from the Gorleston coastguard that a vessel appeared to be in trouble two miles from the North Denes look- out. Coxswain Plummer...
Category: Services
Flint Lifeboat Named Marjorie Helen
With the ruins of Flint Castle overlooking the proceedings, Eric Bulling handed D class lifeboat Marjorie Helen over to Anthony Oliver, deputy head of fundraising and marketing on 16 November.
This was Eric's second... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services
Date Station 1960 Jan. 1 Scarborough ..
„ 2 Walton and Frinton „ 3 Kilmore „ 13 Filey ..
„ 16 Whitby „ 17 Swanage „ 19 Southend-on-Sea 20 Arklow „ 20 Tynemouth ..
„ 21 Gal way Bay...
Category: Services
Masterpiece
PALLING, NORFOLK.—The Coastguard on duty having observed a small boat about a mile N. of the station, with a signal of distress flying, on the morning of the 26th August, informed the Coxswain of the Life-boat. He at once summoned the crew...
A Steamer
A steamer of 6,000 tons register stranded in the neighbourhood of the Skullmartin Rock in the early morning of the 9th November. Information of the casualty reached Donaghadee shortly after 5 A.M., and the crew of the Motor Life-boat William...
Tern and the Trinity Vessel Reculver
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 8.45 A.M. on the 18th November, 1937, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Tern, of London, appeared to be showing signals about one and a half miles E.N.E. from Britannia...