LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Lighter
Ilfracombe, Devonshire.—3rd October, 1939. A large lighter had been reported broken away from her tow in a heavy sea, with half a gale blowing.
After two hours the life-boat came up with her, about twelve miles from...
A Noble Rescue
ON Friday night, the 23rd October, 1868, a Government lighter named the Devon, was making her way round the Land's End to a western port. She was strongly built, and a good sea-boat, and could well enough have weathered the hard gale...
Category: Articles
Ben My Chree
JUNE 25TH. - HARTLEPOOL, CO. DURHAM.
At 2.30 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the motor coble Ben My Chree, with two men on board, was then two and a half miles N.E. of Heugh.
With a...
News from the Branches
list of New Branches.
The following new Branches have been formed since the list published in Life Lifeboat, for March 1926.
NORTHERN DISTRICT.
Branch. Honorary...
Category: Branches
A Yacht
Lasting the night During the night of 2 July, a lone yachtsman faced force 10 winds and 10-11m waves, 40 miles off the coast of Donegal. The experienced sailor harnessed himself to the yacht as it capsized repeatedly. In the early hours of...
A Vellum for Southend-On-Sea.
Coxswain Sydney Page, of Southend-on-Sea, has won the thanks of the Institution on vellum for rescuing the crew of a yacht which had gone aground on a sandbank in the Thames estuary in a gale. The night was very dark, with mist; the tide was...
Category: Articles
Travelscope-1
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Category: Advertisement
A High Speed Launch
JANUARY 13TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.
At 1.30 in the morning the Wick coastguard telephoned that a high speed launch was ashore at the Beacon, the southwest point of Stroma. The weather was calm and the sea smooth. The motor...
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A Helicopter
At 3.37 p.m. on I4th June, 1966, there was an alert that a helicopter had crashed in the Solent near West Lepe buoy. The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe left her moorings together with.
the IRB at 3.55 p.m. There was a...