LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Greek Ship Aground In Hurricane
AT 9.25 on 25th October, 1967, Valentia radio informed the assistant honorary secretary of the Galway Bay life-boat station that the Greek motor vessel Razani was aground three quarters of a mile east south east of Black Head, Galway Bay....
Category: Services
A Sailing Dinghy and a Small Craft
Double rescue AS MOST PEOPLE were sitting down to their lunch on Sunday, October 19, 1986, Bridlington Coastguard was alerted to a small craft reported to be in trouble off Ulrome. At 1307 the honorary secretary of Bridlington...
A Surfboard
nflatable saves surfer in conditions outside normal limits for D class Helmsman Peter Roberts and crew members Gavin Forehead and James Dixon of St Agnes were aboard the station's D class lifeboat on 30 October 1996 in a service which...
Peep Into The Past
Peep into the past Fascinating excerpts from the Lifeboat archives … 100 years ago The May 1907 Journal reported on experiments to improve life-belts and the early days of a new era in lifeboat crew kit: ‘The life-belt produced by the...
Category: Articles
The Ex-German Steamer Walter L. M. Russ
JULY 16TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 11.10 in the morning the Tenby coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities at Milford Haven had reported a vessel ashore on Grassholm Island and in need of help. It had been...
The Flamborough Motor Fishing Coble Pioneer
NOVEMBER 12TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 5.30 at night it was reported that the Flamborough motor fishing coble Pioneer, which had been due back at three o’clock, had not returned.
A strong...
Surf and turf
On 4 August 2010, Sue went to dinner at a house rented by some visitors. She says: ‘As I walked back home about 1am along a narrow track, I turned my ankle and heard the bone snap. I had to inch my way up the steep hill back to the house,...
Category: Articles
Ernani , H.M.S. Holdfast and Steamer Premuda
JANUARY 16TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
At 7 P.M. a message was received from the Ramsgate coastguard that the Italian steamer Ernani had collided with the Brake Light-vessel, and that the light-vessel was in danger of sinking. At...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 3rd June, 1880.
THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspond- ence...
Category: Committee
The Fundraisers
Blackpool push the boat out Members of the Blackpool lifeboat crew and ladies guild quite literally pushed the boat out on 10 September 1995, raising over £167 for RNLI funds.
An inflatable D class lifeboat was pushed...
Category: Articles