LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Enfant de Bretagne (1)
Trawler taking water A FRENCH TRAWLER, Enfant de Bretagne, broadcast a Mayday call on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 2, 1975, saying that she was taking water in heavy weather in position 320°M 18 miles from St Ives Head. This...
Here be dragons
Tower is the RNLI’s busiest lifeboat station, and its crew were really in demand on 5 September, rescuing 106 people in 2 hours.
This large number of casualties were taking part in a popular race, in which dragon boats,...
Category: Articles
The Herring Boat British Sovereign
Three days afterwards the same Life- >oat was called out to the aid of the icrring boat British Sovereign, which had Iriven on the Annat Bank. When the jife-hoat reached her she was taking the «a heavily on the starboard quarter and...
Electrical Communication on the Coast for Lifesaving Purposes
THE resolution of the House of Commons so unanimously passed last Session at the instance of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, on the motion of its Chairman, Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., relative to the establishment of a...
Category: Articles
Lenie (1)
TOWED OFF ROCKS Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.
At 5.5 a.m. on i8th March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a Dutch motor vessel was ashore eight miles south-west of Porthdinllaen Point. There was a...
New Boathouse at Angle
New boathouse at Angle The new boathouse and slipway at Angle was completed in July this year, next to the site of the old 1927 boathouse, which was fully operational while the building programme was underway.
The old... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Service During the General Strike
THE General Strike started at midnight on Monday, 3rd May, and all the regular transport by rail and road ceased at once. On Wednesday, 12th May, shortly after midday, the strike was called off, but it was not until the Saturday that normal...
Category: Articles
The Unseaworthy Ships' Commission
THE Royal Commission appointed at the instance of Mr. Plimsoll " to inquire into the alleged unseaworthiness of British registered ships," has issued a " pre- liminary" report. The report is signed by all the...
Category: Articles
KISS OF LIFE
A 13-year-old’s quick thinking and love for his Dad keep them both alive when a February kayaking trip goes wrong
After a good breakfast, Paul Rowlands kissed his wife Julie goodbye and set off on an adventure with his son...
Category: Articles
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Flamborough, Yorkshire. — At 4.44 in the afternoon of the 3rd of June, 1952, the Flamborough Head coast- guard telephoned that a boy, swim- ming in Thornwick Bay, had been washed on to the rocks below Thorn- wick Bay Camp. The life-boat...