LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Admiralty Trawler Moray and Empire Ned (1)
DECEMBER 13TH - 14TH. - DUNMORE, EAST, CO. WATERFORD, AND KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD. Just before half-past five in the evening the coast watcher at Hook Point telephoned to the Dunmore East station that a vessel was off the Hook showing flares....
PERSONAL FLOTATION DEVICES (PFDs)
PROBLEM: A shocking 76% of fishermen who died between 2010 and 2013 weren’t wearing a lifejacket or buoyancy aid – it’s just not common practice on a lot of boats. In many cases, wearing a PFD could have saved the victim’s life.
Category: Articles
Scarborough August 1 1987:
SCARBOROUGH, August 1, 1987: the 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Amelia arrives back at Scarborough with the 38ft yacht Tin Fish which she had towed 24 miles after the vessel's engines had failed. A force 5/6 north-westerly wind at the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On the rocks
Two sailors clung to a ledge beneath Welsh cliffs, lashed by waves with the tide rising around them
With the sea and wind driving directly onto the rocky shoreline, this would be an extremely...
Category: Articles
Rescue from a Norwegian Ship
AT 5.37 on the morning of the 21st of January, 1955, the honorary secretary of the Cloughey life-boat station, Mr.
D. Thompson, learnt from the Tara coastguard that a Norwegian ship was aground on South Rock and needed help...
Category: Services
Saved from the freezing sea
A couple made a desperate call for help in the early hours of 20 December 2009 when their motorboat got into difficulties in near-gale conditions and snow showers off the mouth of the Humber.
The batteries to their VHF...
Category: Articles
Far and Wide
I thought you might be interested in the enclosed photograph which was sent to me by a friend who lives in Edmondton, Canada.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Presentation to the Montrose Life-Boatmen (From the Dundee Advertiser, 21st April, 1884)
FOR years past the Montrose life-boat crews, by their readiness at all times to proceed to sea to the rescue of the wrecked, and the success which has at all times attended their labours, have earned for Montrose the reputation of being, so...
Category: Articles
Shoreline
Shoreline Section FOR SHORELINE each new year is welcomed in by the Boat Show at Earls Court, early in January. As usual a voluntary Shoreline team was manning our stand for the full 11 days, and very well they did, too. We made an excellent...
Category: Articles
Centenary of the Padstow Station
THE Life-boat Station at Padstow has celebrated its Centenary this year.
The first mention of it in the records of the Institution appears under the date, 24th January, 1827, when it was decided to make a grant of £10...
Category: Articles