LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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Long tow in difficult conditions for Skegness and Humber lifeboats Skegness and Humber lifeboats were both involved in a long service when conditions became too severe for a classic, 1920s-built motor yacht on a delivery passage from Great...

DOCTOR TO LIGHTVESSEL Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 1.55 p.m. on 3ist January, 1965, the superintendent of Trinity House asked the honorary secretary for the use of the life-boat to take a sick man off of the Gorton Lightvessel....

Disaster survivor names new lifeboatA ceremony in New Quay, Wales on 7 May 2004 was steeped in history. On the 89th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German U-boat torpedo, it was a survivor of that tragedy who named a new...

Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 12.43 on the afternoon of the 1st of June, 1953, the Arklow lightvessel wirelessed that her tender Willie Wag, of Arklow, with a crew of four, had broken down after leaving the lightvessel. This message was heard...

Clovelly, Devon.—At 9.50 on the night of the 24th of August, 1957, the Hartland Point coastguard reported by telephone that a young man, who had set out at 2.30 in the afternoon to walk from Clovelly to Hartland along the beach, was missing....

Caister, Norfolk. At 7.40 p.m. on 12th February, 1966, one of the life-boat shore helpers had heard a distress call from the trawler Ira of Lowestoft stating that the trawler was aground five miles south-east of Haisbro' lighthouse, and...

The ketch Diana, of Rye, bound from that port to St. Andrews with a cargo of gravel, arrived on the 13th April, but was unable to make the harbour owing to the state of the tide. The captain there- fore anchored about a mile to the north of...