LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A plaque presented to the Appledore life-boat station by R.A.F. Chivenor, Devon, has led to a reciprocal presentation by the life-boat station. The plaques record the close co-operation between the two establishments on sea survival...

Burnham-on-Sea’s lifeboats were returning from their regular Wednesday night training session on 18 June when the Coastguard asked their crews to investigate a sailor who looked to be in trouble. The man was having difficulty recovering his...

HAUXLEY.—The Life-boat Algernon and Eleanor was launched at 1.30 P.M. on the 14th February to the assistance of the fishing coble Lyra, of Newbiggin, which was in distress in a gale from the W.S.W.

and a heavy sea. The boat...

BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.—A strong pale sprung up from the N.E. on the 27th February, accompanied by a heavy sea which broke right across the entrance to Cluny harbour. A fishing-lugger, whilst coming in, was struck by one of the heavy seas and...

KIRKCUDBRIGHT.—The schooner Mary Jane, of Barrow, which had left Maryport for Port William with a cargo of coal on the 22nd March, entered the river on the 23rd March at 2.30 A.M., and lay in Boss roads awaiting suitable weather to enable...

Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. — On the 9th October, 1939, a W. by S. wind was blowing, with a heavy sea. At 2 P.M. the motor life-boat Elsie was launched to the help of the motor vessel West Coaster, of. London, which was in distress in the...

Barrow, Lancashire.—At 8.30 in the morning of the 3rd of August, 1949, the yacht Falcon broke from her moorings in Piel Harbour. A north-westerly gale and the ebbing tide carried her away to sea. It was not known if anyone was on board, and...

New Brighton, Cheshire. At 5.20 on the afternoon of the 7th of May, 1958, the police told the honorary secretary that a rubber dinghy was drifting out to sea off Leasowe lighthouse with one man on board. At 5.35 the life-boat Edward and Mary...