LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cecilia
The sprit-sail barge Cecilia, of London, whilst bound from Orford Haven to Grimsby, with a cargo of shingle, had her sails blown away when off Saltfleet on the 8th April. Signals of distress were hoisted, and the Life-boat John Bowson...
A Gallant Rescue In the Moray Firth
ON the morning of 27th January, 1937, the Russian steamer Kingissepp, of Leningrad, was anchored about a mile off the harbour of Nairn on the Moray Firth. An easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. A boat was seen to put off from the...
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Invicta
At 5 A.M.
on the 30th September the Coxswain of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 9, received a message from the pier-head that a ketch was driving down on to the pier. The Coxswain assembled his crew and proceeded to the...
Elephant
The tubular life-boat was likewise the means of rendering good service to another shipwrecked crew on the 19th October.
During the previous night a very severe gale had swept over Liverpool and its neigh- bourhood, and...
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Neepawa, Fishing Boat Audrey, Lighter Elmsdale, Schooner Westward
Soutbend-on-Sea, Essex.—During the morning of the 23rd November, 1938, the barge Neepawa, of Rochester, was seen to be in distress a quarter of a mile east of the pier. A whole S.S.W.
gale was blowing, with a very rough sea...
Swift
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 11.35 P.M. on the 16th April, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel was in distress off Beachy Head, and as the Eastbourne life-boat was oft service for overhaul, the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian...
Master and commander
An RNLI coxswain must be brave but what else does it take to inspire the confidence and trust of a modern-day crew?
On 9 July 2010, Mike Lawrence was not only in charge of Calshot’s Tyne class Alexander Coutanche but also...
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Fishing Cobles
Con- siderable excitement was caused on the morning of the 16th March in the village of Newbiggin owing to fifteen of the cobles belonging to the port having been overtaken by bad weather when at sea. The boats went off fishing at about 5...
Liberator
WEXFORD.—On November 1st, during a strong gale from E.N.E., signals were observed from a vessel which, had strandedon the Dogger Bank. The Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 was immediately launched, and proceeded to render assistance. On...