LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Scottish Prince
The No. 1 Life-boat Lizzie Porter was called out for service on the 30th May to a trawler, which had stranded on the Goldstone Rock and eventually became a total wreck. Information reached Holy Islaad at about noon that a vessel was ashore,...
Limecold
On the 9th January the steam trawler Limeicold of Grimsby, when outward bound, ran ashore on the north side of the " Black Middens." The motor Life-boat Henry Vernon proceeded to her assistance and brought up alongside the vessel....
Blanka
At 7.15 A.M. on the 29th October the Coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore about a mile north of Rattray Head. The crew of the No. 2 Motor Life-boat Alexander TullvcJt were at once summoned and the boat proceeded with all possible...
Severini
The Norwegian steamer Severini, of Langesund, stranded on the north part of the Goodwin Sands on the 26th November whilst bound from Sunderland to Dieppe with a cargo of coal. A N.E. gale prevailed at the time, with a very heavy sea, and the...
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Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 5.20 on the evening of the 21st of Octo- ber, 1957, the coastguard telephoned to ask if the life-boat would take seven men off a drilling tower which had been «rected off Hinkley Point in Bridg-...
Bonne Sante
Walmer, Kent.—At 4.55 on the after- noon of the 1st of September, 1955, the Deal coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from the East Goodwin lightvessel that a yacht needed help about two miles west-by- south of the...
Susan
LIFE-BOAT CHECKS SAFETY OF YACHT Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At ten to nine on the evening of Tuesday the 20th August, 1963, the coxswain received a telephone message from the honorary secretary that the Rhyl coastguard had a small yacht...
Sailing Dinghies
Walmer, Kent. At 4.40 on the after- noon of the 6th August, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that some of the sailing dinghies taking part in a race from Deal to Ramsgate were missing. There was a fresh south-westerly...
Sheringham - East Division
Sheringham's long straight and exposed coastline can be seen stretching away to the east in the main photo on the left, with the boathouse and slipway for the station's Atlantic 75 visible on the foreshore - tucked under the cliffs... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Canine calamity! Filey's inshore lifeboat was called out in March this year to help rescue a dog that was cut off by the tide and stranded on rocks.
Photo: Graham Taylor Coastguards had previously climbed down 60m of...