LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 2 November show that so far during 1990: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 3,594 times (an average of more than 9 launches a day) More than 1,190 lives were saved (an average of nearly 3...
Category: Articles
I FLOATED TO LIVE
Each issue we share with you stories of courageous rescues by our lifesavers, but this last year we’ve been hearing from you too. Thanks to our Respect the Water campaign, there has been a different kind of rescue happening around our coasts...
Category: Articles
The Motor Coaster Cyprian Coast
COASTER RE-FLOATED Caister, Norfolk.—At about 10.30 in the morning of the 12th of October, 1947, a motor vessel was seen stranded on the west side of Scroby Sands, two miles east of the life-boat station, and the motor life-boat Josk Neville...
The East German M.V. Saale (2)
Eastbourne, Newhaven, Shoreham Harbour and Selsey, Sussex - At 9.45 p.m. on 7th January, 1967, a message was received that the East German m.v.
Saale, which was on fire, required assistance.
The life-boat...
Pulaid Marine Systems
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Iron Ships, and the Wreck of the Royal Charter
How many " monster wrecks" has it been our painful duty to chronicle during the past few years! How sad is the reflection that their number appears rather to be on the increase than on the decline! During the present year alone...
Category: Articles
A Raft (1)
OCTOBER 25TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY.
At 5 P.M. the Kerryhead look-out reported that a raft was floating in Tralee Bay, about two miles south of the head, and the motor life-boat City of Bradford I, on temporary duty at the...
Kasam
THE LIFEBOAT B class Atlantic 75 lifeboat B-742 Douglas Paley Funding: A gift from Mrs Evelyn Anne Paley, in memory of her late husband Air Commodore Douglas Paley THE CREW Helmsman Gary Stanbury Crew Members Andrew Hallet and Martin Davis...
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Carried out to sea IN THE EARLY HOURS of Thursday August 14, 1980, a 999 call to Great Yarmouth Coastguard reported a woman calling for help from the river near the North Pier opposite the Coastguard lookout. Great Yarmouth and Gorleston...
An Eight-feet Flatbottomed Punt
MARCH 2ND. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 1.45 in the afternoon the coastguard reported information received from Lancing that a small boat had been seen about three miles to the south-south-west.
The motor life-boat Rosa...