LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ministry of Transport Award
THE Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, Mr. Harold Watkinson, has awarded the Ministry's shield for the best rescue service of the year to the Collieston (Aberdeen) Coast Life-saving Company for the rescue by breeches buoy of the...
Category: Awards
Wietska
SOUTHEND, ESSEX.—During a heavy gale from the S.W., on the 8th December, the Dutch schooner Wietska parted both anchors and chains and drove ashore onthe Knock Sands off Shoeburyness. In response to her signals of distress the Life-boat Boys...
April
APRIL Launches 77. Lives rescued 131.
APRIL 1ST. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 11.53 P.M. on 31st March, a message was received from the resident naval officer at Brixham that a boat from H.M.S. Pomerol with men on board was adrift...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat Station
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the house for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 233 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles
Southern Cross
Lifeboatman put aboard yacht in gale force winds after skipper is taken ill The night-time rescue of two people aboard a yacht in gale force winds has earned Richard Hawkins, Coxswain/Mechanic of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat,...
Letters And Reader Information
Letters To add your opinion, write to The Editor at RNLI Headquarters or email [email protected] Dear Editor As a landlocked landlubber, I sometimes wondered why I joined the RNLI as a Shoreline Member many years ago. I was so...
Category: Correspondence
Heather Pet
On the 3rd December the Foreland coastguards telephoned to the honorary secretary that they were watching a steamer which was trying to tow a smaller motor vessel into Spithead. The tow- rope had parted twice. Later they tele- phoned again,...
Book Reviews
• Sir William Hillary, founder of the RNLI, was a man of considerable vision who always pursued his ideas relentlessly, though some of his schemes were not realised until after his death. He_ proposed the formation of an international...
Category: Articles
A Fishing Boat
Buckie, and Whitehills, Banffghire, and Fraserburgb, Aberdeenshire. — 9th November. A fishing boat was in distress off Buckie and the motor life- boat was launched. She took the boat in tow but was disabled by the tow-rope fouling her...
Armandeche
DOVER COASTGUARD received information from Cap Gris Nez at 1315 on Tuesday June 29, 1982, that the 50ft French trawler Armandeche was aground on the Goodwin Sands, north north east of South Goodwin Lightvessel.
At 1325 the...