LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Swallow
While the Motor Life-boat Joseph Adlam was cruising round H.M.S. Warspite in Blyth Bay during an exercise, on the 18th September, the yacht Swallow, of Blyth, was seen to be in difficulties. A fresh westerly wind was blowing with a choppy...
Corinne
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 10.45 on the night of the 21st of July, 1950, the Ventnor coastguard passed on a message from the steamer Stability that the yacht Corinne, of Glasgow, was dis- abled and in need of help. Half an hour later the...
Shaheen
Dover, Kent. — About 5.30 on the afternoon of the 12th of August, 1956, a yacht was seen from the eastern arm of the dock, apparently in difficulties off the Forelands. 'The life-boat Southern Africa put out at...
Noella
Howth, Co. Dublin. At 6.6 on the evening of the 5th of September, 1959, the harbour master told the honorary secretary that a large motor yacht was burning flares about three miles from the harbour. At 6.15 the life-boat R.P.L. left her...
Tumbleweed
Waves stop play - and an apt destination Minehead's D class lifeboat carried out a service on 23 July which saved two people and their yacht in difficult condition, but which was somewhat overshadowed in press reports by the interruption...
Tahi-Tahi
A flare for rescue in darknessWalmer lifeboat crew proved they are ready for anything 24/7 when they were paged at 2 o'clock one morning in mid-winter. The lives of two yachtsmen depended on the crew being wide awake and alert throughout...
A Hundred Years Ago
An extract from The Life-boat, or Journal of the National Shipwreck Institution, July, 1854.
Ix the autumn of 1853, a new life-boat was stationed at Dover by the Dover Humane Society to replace their old one. This boat...
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Margaret, Boy Don and Alsace Lorraine
APRIL 24TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL. At 6.30 A.M. the coastguard reported a fishing boat in distress S.W. of Penzer Point, and the motor life-boat W. and S. was launched at 6.50 A.M.
An E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough...
Morning Star
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 10.42 on the morning of the 18th of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the Worthing beach inspector had reported a small yacht apparently in trouble off Splash Point, Lancing.
The...
The Phillip Rex
The Humber, Yorkshire.—Just after seven o'clock in the evening of the 9th of August, 1948, the Withernsea coast- guard reported a small motor yacht in difficulties two miles south of Withern- sea, and the motor life-boat City of Bradford...