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Stretched to breaking point

Date: Summer 2011

Volume: 61

Issue: 596 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2011

In near gale force winds, a large crabbing boat lost engine power and was drifting close to an offshore gas rig. Unable to anchor, due to underwater pipelines, she needed a tow to safety

Just...

Category: Articles

January

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

JANUARY Launches 71. Lives rescued 221.

JANUARY 3RD. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL. A fishing boat was caught in a S.E. gale with a very rough sea. The motor life-boat K.T.J.S. was launched at 10.20 A.M., found the boat five...

Category: Services

Diver

Date: October 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 347

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.40 in the afternoon of the 4th of July, 1948, the North Foreland Radio reported a small yacht, the Diver, of Gillingham, anchored close to No. 1 Yantlett Buoy and in need of help. The motor life- boat Greater...

Haul-Off Warps

Date: November 1899

Volume: 17

Issue: 194

THE term "Haul-off warp" is used to describe the rope which is made fast to an anchor laid out to sea opposite the launching place of the Life-boat, and with- out the he'p of this appliance there are many stations where the aid...

Category: Articles

A Hint to Sailors. A Remarkable Bequest By a Military Pensioner

Date: July 1869

Volume: 07

Issue: 73

serving of record and worthy of imitation, has been recently made known to the public through the newspapers of the day :— At a meeting of the weekly board of the Gene- ral Hospital at Nottingham, on the 19th May,...

Category: Articles

A Small Yacht

Date: November 1933

Volume: 29

Issue: 316

8th July. A small yacht stranded on the Hook Sands, but was refloated.— Rewards, £14 18s. Qd..

A Fishing Boat

Date: November 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 320

Portaskaig, Islay. — 16th July. A fishing boat was in difficulties, but got to safety without help.—Rewards, £13 14s. 6d..

A Vessel

Date: November 1932

Volume: 28

Issue: 312

July. Vessel on fire, but crew got fire under control.

—Rewards, £7 10s..

Philip Preston

Date: Autumn 1990

Volume: 52

Issue: 514

JULY 1990 Philip Preston, founder chairman of the Wincanton branch from 1970 until his death..

Category: Obituaries

Below: Artist's Impression of the New Barrow Boathouse

Date: Summer 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 557

Below: Artist's impression of the new Barrow boathouse, opened in July by HRH The Duke of Kent.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs