LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Clachnacuddin
On the 19th April, at 10 15 A.M., the barquentine Clachnacuddin, 'ofGuernsey, coal laden from Shields for Jersey, was observed in the fog, apparently stranded on the Scroby Sand. The fog liftiog a little, signals were fired by the Cockle...
Notes of the Quarter
THE happenings in the first six months suggest that 1961 may well, in terms of figures, be an outstanding and possibly a record year in the history of the service. During these six months the Institution's life-boats were launched on...
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Leap overboard TORQUAY POLICE informed Brixham Coastguard at 1537 on October 5, 1973, that a girl was in the water off Meadfoot Beach and asked for the help of the ILB.
The message was passed to Torbay deputy launching...
The Liner Dunera
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At i o'clock on 3rd July, 1966, the liner Dunera reported that a 13 year old girl on board had acute appendicitis and required immediate hospital treatment. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick proceeded at 1.30.<...
Thrum Hall School In Rochdale
On passage: a 24-hour sponsored sail to raise £300 for the RNLI was undertaken by nine 13-year-olds from Thrum Hall School in Rochdale. They took turns to helm a 16ft Wayfarer dinghy round Hollingworth Lake under the watchful eye of Lt... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two slips in 6 hours
KYLE OF LOCHALSH | 13 SEPTEMBER
A canoeist endured a night alone in a cave by Loch Carron after slipping and injuring himself. In the morning he crawled out to get reception on his mobile and called...
Category: Articles
CONTAINER SHIP COLLISION
RAMSGATE | 13 NOVEMBER
It was an early Sunday morning wake-up call for Ramsgate’s lifeboat crew, when their pagers went off just before 8am. A small yacht had collided with a container ship 24 miles east of Ramsgate, and was...
Category: Services
Tubo
Padstow, Cornwall.—At 5.5 on the evening of the 8th of December, 1957, the Trevose Head coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Dutch vessel Tubo was in difficulties twenty miles west of Lundy and that her cargo of grain was shifting...
Alouette de Mer
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 10.40 on the morning of the 24th of May, 1958, the Holyhead coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was showing distress signals three quarters of a mile north of Point Lynas. At eleven o'clock the...
The S.S. Saxton
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 8.30 on the night of the 6th of December, 1948, the coastguard reported that the S.S.
Saxton, of Middlesbrough, was aground outside the harbour entrance with her engines broken down, and the motor...