LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The importance of teamwork Although the RNLI is entirely independent of government, it couldn't operate without the support of official organisations such as the Coastguard, which coordinates all rescues at sea.

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Engine room fire THE TRAWLER St Patrick reported to the Coastguard Channel Navigation Service on channel 10 VHP at 1805 on Wednesday December 7, 1977, that she was hove to with smoke coming from the engine room five miles south east of Dover...

members of his crew. They are (I to r) Fred Menzies, Bill Duthie, Graham Clark, Donald Birnie, lain Sutherland, Robert Morrice and James Buchan.. - View image in PDF

A LIFEBOAT DISASTER may have been narrowly averted last December. Soon after the Padstow lifeboat had launched late in the evening of December 7, she was struck by three exceptionally heavy seas. A considerable weight of water dropped almost...

IN the year 1845 it was first proposed to throw an anchor or grapnel from a mortar, with a line attached to it, for the purpose of hauling boats afloat through a surf. In that year a Mr. OFFORD, of Great Tar- mouth, designed a grapnel, with...

IN the first quarter of 1961 exception- ally heavy demands were made on life- boat crews, as the figures for launches clearly reveal. The total number of launches on service in January, Febru- ary and March was 163. In the first three months...

Yacht on rocks A RADIO MESSAGE at 0924 on Thursday July 15, 1982, reported that a yacht was aground in the area of the Western Carracks, three miles west of St Ives. The honorary secretary of St Ives lifeboat station immediately assembled...