Long hours at sea THE CARGO VESSEL Gladonla, broken down and drifting 34 miles east of Lowestoft, was reported to the honorary secretary of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat station by Yarmouth Coastguard at 0850 on Tuesday January 3,...
22 August 2012: Bembridge lifeboat crew mounted a delicate operation to remove a man with a broken ankle from an oil tanker. The rescue helicopter had been grounded due to heavy fog, so the crew had to stretcher...
Category: Articles
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a reproducti on in colour of the picture on this page.
It is a photograph of the 41-feet Newhaven life-boat Cecil and Lillian...
Category: Advertisement
LIFEBOATMAN ALONE ABOARD PILOT BOAT PLUCKS CREW TO SAFETY IN SEVERE GALE Three rescued from tug after night collision with coaster Shane Coleman, Second Coxswain/Mechanic of the Lowestoft lifeboat has been awarded the RNLI's Bronze medal...
Category: Services
WHAT is more precious than a human life, But what more frail ? What stronger in its might.
Or lovelier in its strength, than the fair sight Of noble man contending with the strife Of some more powerful foe ? Such is our...
Category: Poetry
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st March, 1955 ... - 79,131 Notes of the Quarter EXCEPTIONAL weather conditions...
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Faster... and further The abilities of the new generation of fast lifeboats were highlighted on the very day that this page of The Lifeboat went to press - with Eyemouth's Trent Barclaycard Crusader going to the aid of a stricken fishing...
Stromness On the afternoon of Thursday August 22, 1985, morning rain had given way to sunshine and the earlier buzz of conversation blending with music from the Salvation Army Band and the movement of people around Stromness harbour was...
Category: Inaugurations
Fraserburgh lifeboat My son Jim and I were two of the people rescued by Fraserburgh lifeboat last summer when the yacht Blanche got into trouble in a force 8 gale. We were most impressed by both the efficiency and humanity of the coxswain...
Category: Correspondence
About 9 P.M.
on 15th April a message was received from Seaton Coastguard that a ship was apparently on fire about eight miles south of Lyme Regis. The Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Thomas Masterman Hardy was launched in a...