LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Reaching the limits
It was the morning of Saturday 24 May 2008 and the sailor, en route from the Azores to Ireland, was in considerable pain. He struggled to control his yacht in the rough seas that would inevitably worsen – gales were expected for the evening....
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RNLI FAMILY: THE LIFE OF THE CHARITY
Station to station
Lifeboat superfan Harry Mascall is celebrating an important milestone on his mission to visit every one of the RNLI’s 237 stations. The 8-year-old Storm Force member from Cheshire enjoyed When Connie Richards,...
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An Aeroplane (31)
AUGUST 3RD. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. An aeroplane had crashed, but her crew of two were rescued by a naval sloop. - Rewards, £3 16s..
Stormcock
FOUR MEN AND TWO WOMEN DRIFTING Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.—At 7.0 in the evening of the 17th of May, 1947, a resident at Sandbay telephoned that a cabin cruiser was drifting and making distress signals in the...
Eve
Tynemoutb, Northumberland.—At 7.12 in the evening of the 20th of Sep- tember, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a sailing yacht, then two miles to the south-east, was drifting towards Frenchman's Point. The life-boat Tynesider, the...
Memosa
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 5.30 on the evening of the 4th of September, 1958, the honorary secretary was in- formed that the motor boat Memosa was drifting out of control off Ragan Point. At 5.40 the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched...
Two French Crab Fishing Boats
AUGUST 10TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
Two French crab-fishing boats had been reported missing from St. Ives Bay, but nothing was found. One had made harbour and the other had been totally wrecked, with the loss of three of...
The Motor Coble Humility
APRIL 5TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At about 1.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that the motor coble Humility, of Newbiggin, was overdue. She had a crew of three. A strong westerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea....
April
Launches 25. Lives rescued 32.
APRIL 2ND. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, ESSEX. At 11.12 A.M. the military authorities reported, through the coastguard, that a soldier was adrift in a small rowing boat, without oars, about four hundred...
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Jessie
Soon after 6 A.M. on the 20th March, during a N.E. gale, the schooner Jessie, ofPerth, bound from Littleferry to Ports- mouth, was seen ashore on the North Sand Head, off Goodwin, and the Life-boat, in tow of the steam-tug, proceeded to...