LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sora
Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 8.45 in the evening, on the 1st of June, 1950, dis- tress signals were seen about three miles south-east of Moelfre Island. At nine the life-boat G.W. was launched.
The sea was smooth, with a northerly...
La Francoise (1)
French trawlermen saved IN THE WAKE OF the hurricane which swept across South East England in the early hours of October 16, 1987, many of the boats berthed at Newhaven Harbour—ripped from their moorings in the 90-knot winds—had been blown...
Locative
Tyne and helicopter work together to rescue four in heavy swell and gale The skill and determination of Second Coxswain/Mechanic John O'Donnell, of Arranmore's Tyne class lifeboat William Luckin , during a difficult eighthour service...
The Saint
TOTLAND BAY, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The schooner The Saint, of Padstow, while bound from Par, Cornwall, to Gravelines, with a cargo of china clay, stranded on the Warden Ledge in the early morning of the 2nd May. On receipt of information from the...
Oberon of Liverpool
On the 1st of April the barque Oberon, of Liverpool, ran ashore on the Causeway Bank in Cardigan Bay. She was seen from Portmadoc, and a large boat was also observed at a great distance from the land, apparently full of people. The Portmadoc...
Lifeguards Work Wet Summer
LIFEGUARDS WORK WET SUMMER Despite the met Offi ce reporting the wettest may–July since records began, RnLi lifeguards in england were very much in demand. in particular, spring tides led to a number of mass rescues, one of which you can...
Category: Articles
Saved in the peck of time
Volunteers were diverted on their journey home, after launching to a rowing boat in difficulties that had since made it safely to shore. Eagle-eyed crew spotted a gannet struggling in Kinghorn Bay – it was tangled in plastic string along...
Category: Articles
March
MARCH Launches 43 Lives rescued 45 MARCH 2ND. - MONTROSE, ANGUS.
The Admiralty tug Seaman put out from Montrose with a battle target in tow and the life-boat coxswain on board as pilot. A strong northerly wind was blowing,...
Category: Services
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APPENDICITIS PATIENT Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 10.20 p.m.
on 2 ist July, 1964, a local doctor told the honorary secretary that an appendicitis patient was in urgent need of an operation.
The air ambulance...
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