LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sapphire, of Glasgow (1)
Newhaven, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—Early in the morning of the 2nd December, 1937, the motor vessel Sapphire, of Glasgow, bound for Ghent, had trouble with her engine when some miles off the coast between Newhaven and Shoreham. The...
Dawn
AUGUST 27TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 6.30 in the evening the coxswain received a telephone call from the Colwyn Bay police that a boat was in distress one and a half miles off Colwyn pier.
A fresh...
Princess Anne Graces the London Boat Show
Princess Anne Graces The London Boat Show. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Introducing the Shannon class lifeboat
We’re delighted to announce that our next all-weather lifeboat class, due on station in 2013, will be called the Shannon. We’ve been naming lifeboats after rivers or stretches of water for 45 years, but this is the first time the name of an...
Category: Articles
Rescue of Angler
AN unusual rescue carried out in a small plywood dinghy led to the rescue from drowning of an angler near Dunbar on 15th April, 1968. At 3.30 in the after- noon of that day, Miss H. Bibby, a gardener on the Earl of Haddington's estate at...
Category: Articles
August
SOUTHEND, ESSEX.—During a strong gale of wind from the S.W., and a heavy sea, at 11.30 A.M. on the 24th October the brig August, of Griefswold, Prussia, signalled for assistance, having lost her masts and anchors. The Boys of England...
Dido
At 9.16 P.M. on the 9th October the coastguard telephoned that a small motor fishing boat was in difficulties in Yarmouth Roads, about three-quarters of a mile S.E. from Britannia Pier. A moderate and increasing S. gale was blowing, with a...
The Cypriot Coaster Primrose
Hurricane in Straits of Dover DOVER STRAIT COASTGUARD received a Mayday call at 2204 on Monday, December 1, 1975, from the 1,199-ton phosphate loaded Cypriot coaster Primrose indicating loss of steering gear in a position some 3 miles east...
Welcome
What will you discover this autumn?
The ‘back to school’ feeling is a receding memory for many of us, but I still find autumn brings a clean slate and the instinct to try something new. This issue, we meet volunteers who...
Category: Articles
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COASTGUARDSMAN LOWERED TO MAN AFTER CLIFF FALL Sennen Cove, Cornwall. At 7.17 on the evening of the 9th May, 1962, the coastguard told the coxswain that a man was thought to be trapped on the cliffs at Lands End, but that he could not be...