LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gisele Aimee
Weymouth, Dorset.—At about 4.20 A.M. on the 4th August, 1938, Wyke coastguard reported that a yacht was in difficulties north of Weymouth Pier and was burning red flares. She was the auxiliary yacht Gisele Aimee, of St. Malo, bound, with a...
The Greek Motor Vessel King Minos and the S.S. Prodromos
Dungeness, Kent. At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd of December, 1958, the coastguard at Lade informed the honorary secretary that two vessels had been in collision twelve miles south-south-west of Dungeness. At 1.30 the life-boat Mabel E....
A Raft
SURVIVORS FROM RAFT LANDED Humber, Yorkshire. At 5.51 on the morning of the 17th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Scampton had picked up a man and a woman from a raft about 40 miles...
The Fishing Trawler Elizabeth Ann Webster
Anchors dragging ON MONDAY MORNING, April 7, the Coastguard informed Padstow honorary secretary that a 90' beam fishing trawler, Elizabeth Ann Webster of 112 tons carrying a crew of six, had broken down with gear box trouble 17| nautical...
Falke
Engine failure A FISHING VESSEL, Falke, on delivery passage from the continent to Whitby on Monday December 18, 1978, put out a 'pan' message saying that she was broken down 60 miles east by north of Flamborough Head with no power or...
Espaniola
Three rescued in strong winds and poor visibilityThe RNLI's chief of operations has congratulated the crew of Holyhead's Tyne class lifeboat St Cybi II following a service to the 52ft yacht Espaniola.
In his letter...
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Swimmers rescued from surf-swept pier supports The Chief of Operations has written to congratulate crew member Steven Tester of Littlehampton's Atlantic 21 Blue Peter I following the rescue of two swimmers on 16 July...
Dolphin friendly
Falmouth’s inshore lifeboat crew was involved in a large and unusual rescue operation on 9 June when a pod of dolphins became stranded in Porth Creek on the Percuil River. When the lifeboat arrived on scene, more than 20 had already died,...
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Frederick Carel (1)
RAMSGATE and DEAL. — Signals were made by the Goodwin and Gull lightships, during a fresh S.E. gale and a heavy sea, on the morning of the 31st of October.
At the same time a large flare was seen in the direction of the...
Lacon's Safety Plan for Lowering a Ship's Boats at Sea
WHILST we are doing all in our power to guard our coasts with life-boats ready to save life in the event of a vessel being stranded on our shores, we must not lose sight of the fact that the greatest loss of life among our own countrymen,...
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