LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Inshore Passage
The Inshore Lifeboat Centre at Cowes held its biennial Open Days on 16 and 17 August.
Our photographers braved the holiday atmosphere, the refreshment tent and blazing sunshine to bring you this photo-report..
Category: Articles
Rescue from a Turkish Steamer
AT 3.10 on the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1955, Coxswain William Cox. of Wells, was told by the coastguard that a message had been received from the S.S. Richmond Queen, of London, that the S.S. Zor, of Istanbul, was in distress six miles...
Category: Services
Penta, of Glasgow
JULY 18TH. - FENIT,. CO. KERRY. On the 13th of July the sailing yacht Penta, of Glasgow, had anchored about 500 yards eastsouth- east of the pier at Fenit. She had on board her owner, his wife and their maid.
On the 18th a...
January (1)
JANUARY MEETING ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At about 5 in the afternoon of the 21st June, 1940, the coastguard reported a ship’s boat drifting some five miles north of Ilfracombe. A light N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a slight sea.
Category: Services
Maria, of Dunedin
The ship Maria, of Dunedin, came ashore here during a fresh wind from the 8.E., on the 22nd Jan. An effort was made by the crew to get her off; but a gale springing up from the E., ac- companied by a heavy sea, placed their lives in great...
Florya
GROUNDED YACHT THE Eastney, Hampshire, ILB on 18th June, 1972, went to the aid of the yacht Florya and rescued three people.
At 1 p.m. on that day Hayling Island Coastguard reported that a large yacht was standing into...
The History of the Institution
ON 30th October the history of the Institution, during its first hundred years of work, was published under the title " Britain's Life-boats : A Century of Heroic Service." It has been written, at the request of the Committee...
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June
breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea and rain. The life-boat made for the position given, W. by S. 1/4S., 36 1/4 miles from Porthdinllaen Point. It was very difficult to see in the continuous rain and, when at midnight the life-boat...
Category: Services
A Steamer (2)
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—18th January. A steamer had stranded, but the crew were rescued from the shore by the coastguard life-saving apparatus. — Rewards, £27 12s..
None (50)
Nov. 17TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
A distress signal had been seen some miles out to sea. but the life-boat could find nothing. - Rewards £19 12s..