LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Torbay
TORBAY, Sunday January 12, 1986: a 15-year-old boy had fallen 100 ft down a cliff to the south of Berry Head. A coastguard cliff rescue team had gone to his assistance and Torbay's 54 ft Arun class lifeboat, Edward Bridges, launched so... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
12 MILE PASSAGE IN 30 KNOT WINDS 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...
Category: Services
The Fundraisers
Celebration challenge London's Lakeside shopping centre was the setting for a unique anniversary fundraising event in August.
The Yamaha/RNLI challenge saw Lakeside staff competing against their retail rivals in a...
Category: Articles
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On the South Wales coast, Porthcawl was isolated by an extremely heavy snow fall on Friday January 8 and the roads in the surrounding area were blocked by deep drifts for six days. By Tuesday January 12 the local chemist was out of a number...
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 16 November 1989, show that during 1989: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 3,695 times (an average of more than 12 launches a day) More than 1,257 lives were saved (an average of 4 people...
Category: Articles
Gypsy Rover
Leapt to the rescue THE STORMS WHICH SWEPT ACROSS THE English Channel on August Bank Holiday Monday, 1986, continued unabated the next day and it was towards the end of the afternoon on Tuesday, August 26 that a yacht in Alderney Harbour...
Ceremonies
Rosslare Harbour ROSSLARE HARBOUR in County Wexford is, according to the tourist brochures, the heart of the Sunny South East.
Unfortunately, on Friday June 28,1985, it failed to live up to its name. With the naming...
Category: Inaugurations
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Three walkers three lifeboatsThe difficulties of working close inshore in surf were vividly illustrated when Newhaven's Arun class lifeboat, her ' Y' boat and the Eastbourne D class were all involved in a service to save three...
Coxswain Barry Bennett - Bronze Medal
Coxswain Barry Bennett - Bronze Medal St Mary's lifeboat, 12 September 1993 Barry Bennett took St Mary's Arun class lifeboat Robert Edgar into a small, shallow and rockstrewn cove to rescue two yachts anchored there and caught out by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Vamoss II
Yacht saved BRIXHAM COASTGUARD contacted Exmouth lifeboat station on the morning of Friday June 21, 1985 with the news that a yacht was in difficulties one mile off shore to the east of Sidmouth. Six minutes later, at 1046, the station's...