LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Danish Life-Saving Service
FROM a communication received a short time since from Horr ANDERSEN, the Inspector of the Danish Life-saving Service, we learn that on the occasion of the visit of H.M. The KING OF DENMARK to the Skaw, on the 24th July last, a tabulated...
Category: Services
'A radical new approach'
How are we tackling the drowning problem around our coasts?
In 2012, we reached a crossroads in our mission to save lives at sea. We had the best possible kit, training and crew, yet there...
Category: Articles
A Sailing Dinghy and a Small Craft
Double rescue AS MOST PEOPLE were sitting down to their lunch on Sunday, October 19, 1986, Bridlington Coastguard was alerted to a small craft reported to be in trouble off Ulrome. At 1307 the honorary secretary of Bridlington...
An Aeroplane (71)
MAY 7TH. - EYEMOUTH, AND ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. At 5.15 P.M. the Eyemouth honorary secretary received a message from the Royal Observer Corps post that an aeroplane had been seen to dive into the sea about ten miles east of Eyemouth. At St....
An Aeroplane (72)
MAY 7TH. - EYEMOUTH, AND ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. At 5.15 P.M. the Eyemouth honorary secretary received a message from the Royal Observer Corps post that an aeroplane had been seen to dive into the sea about ten miles east of Eyemouth. At St....
Bookshelf
The Mary Stanford Disaster by Geoff Hutchinson published by the author at £2.25 plus 50p post and packing ISBN 095199361 5 First published in 1984 The Mary Stanford Disaster, recounting the events at Rye Harbour in 1928, has been...
Category: Articles
In a Heavy Sea Off the Longships
The " Mona " of Antwerp, on October 27th, 1928. Her cargo of coal had shifted and she had heavy list. The Peniee Motor Life-boat stood by until she got into Mount's Bay.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sapphire
YOUGHAL.—The Chief Officer of Coastguard having reported that a steamer, bearing about fourteen miles E. of Youghal, appeared to be in distress, on the 28th March, the Life-boat Mary Luckombe was launched at noon and proceeded under sail to...
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Two calls HASTINGS 15ft 6in D class inflatable lifeboat, manned by Helmsman Christopher Cooper and Crew Members Steven Barrow and John K. Ronchetti, was launched at 1534 on the afternoon of Friday, July 13, 1984, after it was reported that a...
Merlin
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 5.20 a.m. on 2nd September, 1965, the signal station received a message from a yachtsman arriving in the harbour. He had seen red flares about three miles south of St. Martins Point. The life-boat Euphrosyne...