LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Open Boat
On the 5th September at about 2.30 P.M. a small open boat with one occupant left the harbour to return to Helen's Bay.
The wind was blowing strongly from W.S.W. and increasing, whilst the sea was heavy; the boat was...
Festivity
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 5.12 on the morning of the 23rd of March, 1955, the Polruan coastguard telephoned that a man at Hope Cove had reported hear- ing a wireless message that a vessel was in distress in Mevagissey Bay. At 5.45 the life-boat...
Eliza, Tom and Hereford
BURNHAM.—The ketch Eliza, of Ljdney, was sailing up the river on the 2nd October, when owing to the state of the weather—a moderate gale blowing from the W.N.W. with strong gusts of wind and a heavy sea—her master considered safer to anchor....
Liver
On the 20th October the sloop Liver, of Carnarvon, was totally wrecked, during a very heavy gale of wind, on the Wharf Sandbank, about three and a half miles from Southport.
As soon as the vessel was seen in distress from...
Go wild, stay safe
Thinking of doing more sea swimming?
Here are some RNLI safety tips:
- Cold-water shock can occur within seconds of sudden immersion in cold water, causing a gasping reaction and an increase in blood...
Category: Articles
Bittern
During a heavy gale from S.W.
on the 22nd April the yacht Bittern, of Berwick, was observed being rapidly driven seawards. The gale was increas- ing in violence, and it was considered necessary to launch the Life-boat to...
Two Boats
Launch team praised THE STORMS which battered the south east coast of England last autumn left Eastbourne lifeboat station behind a three foot high sandbank, 30ft in length.
At 1913 on November 1, 1987, Coxswain Graham Cole...
Nigel Dixon: 'We Give Thanks for His Life'
IT WAS WITH GREAT SORROW that the people of the Royal National Life-boat Institution heard that their Director, Captain Nigel Dixon had died suddenly in Poole Hospital on Sunday December 3 after a short illness. Captain Dixon had been...
Category: Obituaries
Broaching yacht
RED BAY AND LARNE | 25 AUGUST
A 10m yacht was broaching in heavy seas off Torr Head on the north Antrim coast, and was in danger of being dismasted.
Her crew of four needed...
Category: Articles
Two Survivors Dragged from Fishing Vessel
AT eight o'clock on the evening of the 30th January, 1962, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary of the Stornoway life-boat station in the Outer Hebrides, Captain Alexander Mackay, that a fishing vessel was aground off Battery...
Category: Services