LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wild Rose
About midday on the 13th July a telephone message was received from the Foreland light- house that a small boat was in distress off the Foreland. A strong and in- creasing W.S.W. breeze was blowing, and a rough sea was getting up. The...
Apollo
Plymouth, Devon.—At 5.58 on the morning of the 14th of May, 1954, the life-boat Hearts of Oak, on temporary duty at the station, was launched to stand by the many small boats which had put off to welcome the return of H.M. the Queen from the...
Spaarnestroom and S.S. Waldemar Sieg
Dover, and Walmer, Kent.—At 10.48 on the night of the 20th of March, 1953, the Sandgate coastguard rang up the Dover life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Spaarnestroom, of Amsterdam, which had been in colli- sion with the S.S....
Linnet
While the fishing dandy Linnet, of Lowestoft, was riding in the bay on the 28th September, a strong gale from the N.N.W. sprung up accompanied by a heavy sea, causing the vessel to drift slowly towards the shore. At midnight a flare-light...
A Drifter
Hartlepool, Durham.—18th June, 1938.
A drifter had run aground in calm, foggy weather, but was refloated with the help of a tug.—Rewards, £4 16*. 6d..
Coxswain Albert Sutherland
Bronze Medal Coxswain Albert Sutherland of Fraserburgh for the service to the fishing vessel Hope Crest on 16 February 1997 - see this issue of Tht Liteboit for a full report of the service. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual General Meeting from Page 196
Annual General Meeting from page 196 pients. Miss N. Robertson, were present to receive their awards: Honorary Life Governor Dr W. J. Guild, BSC pho A committee member of Edinburgh brunch since 1953 and a member of the Executive Committee of...
Category: Meetings
On the Sandbanks In Morecambe Bay
AT three in the afternoon of Sunday, the 3rd of April, the coastguard at Rossall told the coxswain of the life-boat that they could see a vessel outside the harbour in a dangerous position. She was about two miles away to the north-west of...
Category: Services
Breach of the peace
When two teens were swept into a rough sea on 28 December 2009, one was washed straight back to safety. The other wasn’t so lucky, but help was on its way
A south easterly force 6 was blowing on the south Devon coast. Seas...
Category: Articles
A Dive Boat
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...