LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
‘ YOU NEVER THINK IT’LL HAPPEN TO YOU’
Equipment failure sounds benign. But when it’s a broken mast that causes a capsize, it can turn an afternoon on the water into a serious situation – very quickly
Getting ready for an evening shift, Police Officer and Crew...
Category: Articles
A Sailing Craft
Poole, Dorset. At approximately 7.45 p.m. on 28th July, 1965, the Instructor Petty Officer, Parkstone Sea Cadets, reported to the honorary secretary that a sailing craft with four cadets on board was in difficulties a quarter of a mile south...
Your Letters
Model register Thank you for printing my letter in the Summer issue of THE LIFEBOAT under the heading of Model Register.
The response to my letter has meant that we now have sufficient numbers to form a group of lifeboat...
Category: Correspondence
Elizabeth
The life-boat Grace Darling achieved a gallant rescue near this station, during violent gale on the 11th of October.
On that day the Elizabeth, & sloop belong- ing to Sunderland, was forced on to the Pftrtin Steel rocks...
Vert Rouwen (1)
TWO LIFE-BOATS PUT OUT TO BELGIAN TRAWLER On the llth January, 1962, the Margate and Ramsgate life-boats put out to the help of the Belgian trawler Vert Rouwen, which had lost both her anchors in a gale. A full account of this service...
Via
Bed port fires having been observed on the outside part of the Middle Scroby Sand, while a moderate gale was blowing from the N. accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 4th July, the crew of the Lifeboat Beanehamp were summoned and at 3.5 A.M....
Mite
Weymouth, Dorset.—On the 5th of June, 1948, the engines of the sixty- three-ton motor yacht Mite, on passage from Malta to London, broke down some fifteen miles west of Portland Bill in a south-south-west gale with a very rough sea. The...
Warree
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—The Life-boat Star of Hope, was launched at 11.15 A.M.
on the 27th January, in a strong gale from the S.W. and a heavy sea, to the assistance of the .brigantine Warree, of and from Dundalk for Liverpool,...
Saltburn
Hartlepool, Durham.—At 9.43 on the morning of the 18th of October, 1949, the coastguard reported a small vessel in distress. Twelve minutes later the life-boat The Princess Royal—- Civil Service No. 7, was launched. A moderate gale was...
Gwalia
Shortly before noon on the 9th January, the schooner Gwalia, of Drogheda, bound from Liverpool with coal, was observed in the Bay showing signals of distress.
The crew of the Life-boat Brother and Sister were at once...