LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (77)
OCTOBER 8TH. - SENNEN COVE, AND ST. IVES, CORNWALL. At 2.23 P .M.
information was received at Sennen Cove from the coastguard that an aeroplane was down in the sea two hundred yards off Pendeen Lighthouse, and that two men...
Stranded teens
Eight teenagers tried to walk from Pembrey Country Park to Burry Port Railway Station on 19 March and became stranded. One called a parent and was advised to stay put and wait for rescue. The parent dialled 999 and soon police, coastguards...
Category: Articles
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To H. W. JEFFERSON, Mechanic of the Hartlepool Motor Life-boat, in recognition of his intrepid conduct when the Life-boat caught fire, the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum and a monetary grant.
To REGINALD...
Category: Awards
Coxswain Thomas Cocking of St.Ives
Coxswain Thomas Cocking of St Ives, at the Royal Festival Hall last May to receive his second silver medal, signs the Knebworth and District branch's copy of Patrick Howarth's book In Danger's Hour for Mrs Hazel Entecott, branch... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The American Ship Annie E Hooper
At daylight on the 20th Oc- tober, the American ship, Annie E. Hooper, was first seen to be ashore on the Horse ! Bank, from Southport, distant five miles.
The life-boat there was at once launched, j and after much...
Parthia
Trent saves five in gale force winds and very heavy seas When a northerly gale is blowing against a spring tide conditions in the English Channel near the island of Alderney can be very unpleasant indeed. It was in just these conditions that...
Kathleen
Margate, Kent. — At 11.15 in the morning of the 28th of November, 1948, during a dense fog, the coast- guard rang up to say that the skipper of a motor boat had reported passing the local fishing vessel Kathleen near Longnose Buoy and that...
Setantii
Yacht knocked down AFTER FINISHING a cruiser race in gale force winds, the 25ft yacht Setantii set out from Port St Mary on the morning of Monday August 30, 1982, to return to her home port of Fleetwood; she had a crew of three. Gale force...
Laura Williamson
In very wet and cold weather the Life-boat James Stevens No. 6 was engaged during the whole of the 18th March in assisting to save a vessel which had run on to a reef of rocks under Beachy Head. At 7.30 A.M. the vessel was sighted, and...
Pacific (1)
MARCH 26TH. - PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. At 7.20 in the morning a message was received at Penlee from the coastguard that a vessel 4 1/2 miles south-west of The Lizard needed help. A light north-east wind was blowing. The sea was...