LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gannet
Walton and Frinlon, Essex.—Early on the afternoon of the 19th April, 1938, the motor life-boat E.M.E.D., just before entering the Come estuary on passage to Rowhedge, for her annual overhaul, saw a barge in difficulties about a mile and a...
Fishing Cobles (5)
About midday on the 12th May the weather began to look boisterous with a growing sea, and shortly before three of the Spittal cobles had sailed for Goswick Bay. The Honorary Secretary having been apprised of this, he directed the Coxswain of...
Open All Hours...
The RNLI's Open Days on 23 and 24 July were more popular than in any previous year, with more visitors, more displays and more things to see than ever before. With free access to two separate sites accurate estimates of the numbers...
Category: Articles
H.M. Trawler Kingston Cairngorm
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BEMBRIDGE JANUARY 29TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT During the afternoon an easterly blizzard was raging at Bembridge in the Isle of Wight.
The wind had been blowing hard for several days and a very...
Nordanhar
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands - On 21st February, 1970, the life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter was launched and rescued the crew of ten of the Swedish motor vessel Nordanhar. A full account of the service will appear in the next number of THE...
Service of the Life-Boats In July, August and September. 160 Lives Rescued
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Category: Services
A Royal Air Force Machine
Hartlepool, Co. Durham, Runswick, and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—4th December.
A Royal Air Force machine came down at sea at night, but could not be found, and the pilot was drowned.
—Rewards, Hartlepool, £...
A Naval Patrol Vessel
JULY 28TH. - TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
A naval patrol vessel had sent out an S.O.S. as her steering column had broken, but she was able to repair it.- Rewards, £8 2s..
An Aeroplane (174)
NOVEMBER 15TH. - RHYL, FLINT - SHIRE, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.
A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boats found nothing, and it was learned later that no aeroplane was missing. - Rewards : Rhyl...
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On a bright day in June, two sunbathers on a rock ledge at Mawgan Forth, Cornwall, were blissfully unaware that the tide was coming in and that they would soon be in dangerAs part of their daily routine, Mawgan Porth RNLI lifeguards check...