LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Teasel
Ramsey, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.
•—Just before half past five in the evening of the 6th of January, 1948, the coastguard informed the Ramsey life-boat station that the motor vessel Teasel was six miles east of the...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
There have been two Life-boats stationed for some years past near Drogheda—one on either side of the River Boyne— that on the northern side not having justified its existence, the opportunity has recently been taken of closing the station...
Category: Articles
Dona Marika
Tanker aground A MESSAGE came to the Angle (Pembrokeshire) honorary secretary from St Anne's Head Coastguard at 9.8 p.m.
on August 5, 1973, to say that the oil tanker Dona Marika had run aground on Wooltack Point,...
Letters
Beeching's medal At the Great Exhibition of 1851, one James Beeching was awarded the prize bronze medal for a self righting lifeboat.
It is thought this boat was the best if not the first self righting lifeboat to be...
Category: Correspondence
Xepha and Sea Keveral
Yacht swept out to sea AN UNMANNED YACHT, Xephd, had broken adrift in Braye Harbour, Alderney, on the evening of Sunday May 5, 1985, and Coxswain Stephen Shaw of Alderney lifeboat, who is also the deputy harbour master, was aboard the...
Canoes
Canoes HEARING AT 1335 on Saturday May 26, 1979, that a canoe had capsized off Dover, Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Anthony Hawkins informed Dover Port Control that he and a crew member who was with him were going to the boathouse to stand by....
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MEN DIVED FOR BOY AT about 7.30 p.m. on 14th March, 1971, Mr.
John Hodder, a member of the Lyme Regis, Dorset, ILB crew, was working on the Cobb when he heard cries for help. As the ILB was off service for the winter months...
Your Letters
The casualty's view of a rescue ... and thanks to the crew Having read the discussion 'Men behind the medals' in the Autumn issue of The Lifeboat, I wanted to comment on some of the points as seen through the eyes of a...
Category: Correspondence
Marie May
Hythe and Dungeness (Kent).
At 6.30 in the evening of llth November, with a 70-mile an hour gale blowing from the S.W., a very heavy sea running, and poor visibility on account of heavy rain, the Coxswain at Hythe received...
Foreign Life-Boat Societies
DUHIXG 1952 foreign life-boats went out to the help of 12 British vessels and rescued over 40 lives from them.
Belgium Belgian life-boats went to the help of two British yachts, one of which was towed into harbour and the...
Category: Articles