LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Golden Gleam, Moonbeam and the Sea Flower
Boulmer, Northumberland - At 6.55 p.m. on I7th July, 1967, a message was received that the weather was deteriorating and three fishing cobles were still at sea. The life-boat Robert and Dorothy Hardcastle was launched at 7.25 in a strong...
WELCOMING THE RNLI’S NEW VICE-CHAIR
Stuart Popham has been appointed as the RNLI’s new Vice-Chair. ‘I’m honoured to be given such a fantastic opportunity – to be Vice-Chair for such an amazing charity and important lifesaving service,’ says Stuart, who has been on the RNLI...
Category: Articles
Aubie
Crew member swims to stranded yacht Wells' Mersey class lifeboat Doris M. Mann of Ampthill was called to the aid of a 28ft yacht which was stranded on Blakeney Point on 31 July 1993, rescuing the yacht the two adults and two children on...
Lobo
Five saved from foundering yacht When five Danish sailors found themselves in difficulties off the Yorkshire coast with their engine :ailing in appalling weather, the Bridlington lifeboat crew needed all their skill, courage and...
A Small Boat (2)
Barra Island, Hebrides.—16th November.
Two keepers had put out from Monach Island lighthouse, forty-five miles from Barra, in a small boat on the previous day, and all trace of them had been lost. An unsuccessful search was...
A Cabin Cruiser
ON FIRE At 2.31 p.m. on 29th April, 1965, the motor mechanic observed a cabin cruiser on fire about two miles off shore. There was a gentle south-westerly breeze and a moderate sea. The life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched at 2.35 and...
Anabisi
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 11.20 p.m. on 3rd September, 1965, the life-boat Watkin Williams was launched in a north-westerly wind of gale force and a rough sea to go to the assistance of a motor vessel whose engine had broken down five miles...
A Fishing Boat
Launches 71. Lives rescued 221.
JANUARY 3RD. - ARRANMORE, CO.
DONEGAL. A fishing boat was caught in a S.E. gale with a very rough sea. The motor life-boat K.T.J.S. was launched at 10.20 A.M., found the...
Gretafield (2)
FEBRUARY 4TH . - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 1.20 A.M. a message was received at Whitehills from the coastguard at Banff that flares had been reported about ten miles N.E...
The Norwegian Minesweeper No. 382
MAY 7TH. - TORBAY, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON. The Norwegian minesweeper No. 382 had been reported blown up by a mine fifteen miles off Berry Head, but no survivors were found. The Salcombe life-boat put out at midnight on the 7th May and was the...