LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Panther
THE GOODWINS SPARE A SHIP As described on page 126, the Goodwin Sands seldom spare vessels that run aground. But occasionally they are lucky. At 3.36 p.m. on 30th March, 1971, the Walmer honorary secretary picked up a message reporting that...
Rescue In the Surf
THE thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to Motor Mechanic P. N. Thomson and Crewman J. Anderson of the Whitby IRB who saved three people and a dog from a capsized cabin speedboat.
It was at 1845...
Category: Services
Nimrod
Coaster capsized A CARGO VESSEL, Nimrod, with a list to starboard and requiring urgent assistance was reported to the honorary secretary of Cromer lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 0358 on Monday November 14, 1977. Her position was given...
Juan Ferrer (1)
CLUNG TO WRECKAGE Penlee, and Sennen Cove, Cornwall.
At 2.58 a.m. on 23rd October, 1963, the coastguard at St. Just was informed by Land's End radio that a Spanish vessel had gone aground near Mount's...
Belle Souris and Kaloma
Two yachts ON SUNDAY June 1, 1980, at 1732, Portland Coastguard reported to a deputy launching authority of Swanage lifeboat station that red flares from one or two yachts had been sighted about five miles south of St Alban's...
Westwind of Stour
Three yachtsmen saved from Buxey Sands in heavy weather The crew of Clacton's relief Atlantic 21 and Walton and Frinton's Solent lifeboats have received letters of thanks from the RNLI's chief of operations following a joint...
Heemskirk
APRIL 15TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. Just after midnight on the 14th April the coastguard reported a vessel to the N.E. by E. of Britannia Pier, which was not showing distress signals but which appeared to be ashore on Scroby...
Teymar (8)
Eleven lifeboats in biggest ever Cardigan Bay searchCrew from nine lifeboat stations were united in a search for a missing power boat at Cardigan Bay. The Coastguard coordinated an extensive search involving 11 lifeboats, a rescue helicopter...
Services by Shore-Boats (2)
WALMER, KENT. On the 18th January, 1939, the motor boat Rose Marie helped the life-boat to save the yacht Leigh Hall. -Rewards, £3 10s., 12s. for fuel used and 12s.
for damage to tow-rope.
(For a...
Category: Services
The S.S. Cormorant, of Kirkwall
On 10th February, at 2.45 in the afternoon, when a whole gale from the S.E.
was blowing with a heavy sea, it was reported at Stromness that the S. S Cormorant, of Kirkwall, was in distress in Eynhallow Sound. The Motor...