LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SEPTEMBER 7TH. - STROMNESS, ORKNEYS.

At two in the morning the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that a motor launch was ashore in Hoy Sound one hundred yards north-east of Ness Beacon and in need of help.

A...

TO MAKE A CHANGE from the usual Shoreline page, I have asked Linda Grainger, one of my assistants, to write about the work of herself and her colleagues.

First of all, however, I am pleased to announce that RNLB Shoreline...

On the evening of 18th June, 1970, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Walmer inshore rescue boat that two people had been cut off by the tide in St. Margaret's bay. At 9.30 the IRB crew were summoned. They launched 14...

Lifeboats stand-by stranded cargo vessel in severe weatherThe chairman of the RNLI has written a letter of thanks to the coxswains and crews of the Padstow and St Ives lifeboats following a very difficult operation in storm-force winds.At...

ABOVE AND BELOW DECKS, the first prototype of the fast slipway lifeboat (FSB) is gradually taking shape in Fairey Marine's yard at Cowes. With some of the work progress is obvious; other jobs involve perhaps weeks of 'behind the...

BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On Sunday morning, the 2nd April, at half-past seven o'clock, a galliot was observed to go ashore on the outer ledge of Seaton Sea Rocks during a strong E. wind and a rough sea. As she was in a perilous position,...

BEIGHTON.—The Edbert BaiJces Lifeboat was launched at 5.10 P.M., on the 21st of October, signals having been shown by the fishing-smack Volant, of Dover.

The wind was blowing from the S.S.W.; the weather was thick and the...

The Coast- guard -watchman observed flares from a vessel at 3.30 A.M. on the llth March about a quarter of a mile to the south- ward. He at once informed the Cox- swain of the Life-boat and it was decided to launch the No. 1 Bolton. There...