LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gloriosa
Storm launch A CARGO VESSEL, Gloriosa, making for Kings Lynn was reported to the honorary secretary of Skegness lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1610 on Wednesday January 11, a day of exceptionally high tides and winds on the east coast...
A Dinghy and Buccaneer
Dinghy and motorboat SHOREHAM HARBOUR ILB launched at 1519 on Tuesday, May 27, two minutes after the honorary secretary had been informed by the Coastguard that a dinghy had capsized one mile off Lancing. The sea was smooth with strong north...
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Whitby: 1235 on Tuesday March 19, 1985. A party of 27 school children with three teachers were reported by a member of the public to be cut off by the tide at Jump Down Bight, 250 yards east of Whitby. Both the relief 44ft Waveney class...
Pass-o-Leny
DEC. 1ST. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE, AND NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 8.45 A.M. the Lytham secondcoxswain reported a vessel ashore by Peet’s Light, south of the 12th Mile Beacon. A S.W.
gale was blowing, with a heavy...
Sea Caress, of Skibbereen and The Gem
JANUARY 1 7TH. - BALTIMORE, CO.
CORK. At 9.50 at night friends of the crew of the motor fishing boat Sea Caress, of Skibbereen, reported that the boat was in distress five miles to the south-east of Baltimore Harbour, and...
Corduff
MARCH 8TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At about 2.30 in the morning the Cromer coastguard reported that an S.O.S. was being flashed one mile N. by W. from the Haisborough coastguard lookout, and the Cromer No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was...
A Ship
JUNE 18TH and 19TH. - ST. HELIER, JERSEY. During the afternoon of the 18th of June a ship had been reported to be on fire about eight miles to the south-south-west of St. Helier Harbour, but the life-boat couldfind nothing. It was thought to...
The American Steamer David L. Swain
JULY 27TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 2.41 in the afternoon the St. Ives coastguard reported that a vessel four miles west of the Longships had a case of appendicitis on board in urgent need of attention. There was a light...
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JANUARY 31ST. - AITH, SHETLANDS.
On the evening of the 30th of January, a doctor reported that a man was seriously ill on the Island of Foula and in urgent need of a doctor. He was a merchant seaman, recently repatriated...
The shape of things to come
FCB2 is the RNLI’s experimental lifeboat, which is being developed to replace the Mersey class. As we reported last year, the hull proved inadequate in rough weather. A new hull shape has now been chosen, and the RNLI hopes the first...
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