LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Search in fog THICK FOG had descended on Scarborough when, on the night of Saturday July 27, 1985, the lifeboat station's honorary secretary received a report that red flares had been sighted some 2'/2 to 3 miles south of the...
The Herring Boat British Sovereign
Three days afterwards the same Life- >oat was called out to the aid of the icrring boat British Sovereign, which had Iriven on the Annat Bank. When the jife-hoat reached her she was taking the «a heavily on the starboard quarter and...
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Stranded swimmer R LIFEBOAT CREW were paged at 1428 on Saturday, August 8. 1987, following a report of a man having been cut off by the tide below Hunt Cliff, Saltburn.
The station's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable...
The Women of Holy Island. A Fine Launch and a Silver Medal Service
ON Sunday, the 15th January, a south-easterly gale was blowing, with blinding snow-storms. A heavy sea was breaking on Holy Island, and the j weather was bitterly cold. Just before eight o'clock in the evening a...
Category: Medals
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
RAMSGATE.—On the 3rd April, 1882, at 11 A.M., the Bradford Life-boat proceeded, to the East Goodwin Light vessel, which was firing signal guns. The wind was blowing a strong breeze from the E. and there was a thick fog. On arriving at the...
Category: Services
Management of Boats In a Surf and Broken Water
THE management of a boat in the dangerous circumstances of a heavy sea and broken water, is altogether so practical a thing, that it may be thought no rules or instructions can be given which would be of much value to those called on to put...
Category: Articles
Rear-Admiral T. P. H. Beamish
REAR-ADMIRAL T. P. H. BEAMISH, C.B., who died on the 2nd of May at the age of-76, had been a member of the Committee of Management for twenty-seven years. He was elected to the Committee in 1924, served on the General Purposes and Boat...
Category: Obituaries
Ramore Head and Portrush from the Air
Ramore Head and Portrush from the air. The old lifeboathouse can be clearly seen on the east side of the harbour. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of BKS, Coleraine. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
PAUL HANCOCK HELM ROCK LIFEBOAT STATION
We were paged, got to the station and told we were looking for someone in the water. The conditions were wind against tide … rough, choppy, an extremely cold wind. The area we searched is between an island and headland – the tide runs... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs