LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (83)
MAY 13TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY, AND PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
A pilot was reported to have baled out from a British aeroplane about eleven miles in a north-westerly direction from Porthdinllaen Point, but nothing was...
Cakbornne, of Mylor
AUGUST 30TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
About 9.15 at night the coastguard reported flares a mile east of St.
Anthony. A moderate south-westerly breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell. The motor life-boat...
None (5)
Torbay, Devon. — At 6.40 in the evening of the 26th of June, 1952, the police telephoned for the help of the life-boat for a woman, marooned on a rock off Mansands. She had had a heart attack. With the bowman in charge of a scratch crew the...
Shoreline
FOR SHORELINE this year's London International Boat Show was the best ever: through the efforts of the band of voluntary workers who gave up a fortnight of their time to help us we signed on 1,153 new members, and I would like to thank...
Category: Articles
Maria Rose
MARCH 1ST. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
An Italian steamer Maria Rose of Genoa, had struck a mine and sunk eighteen miles off Lowestoft. Two of her boats got away from her and both reached shore without help. - Rewards, £22...
Above: the Skegness Crew
Above: The Skegness crew at the station's open day.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Boy Sam
St. Ives, Cornwall.—On the 16th August, 1938, the motor life-boat John and Sarah Eliza Stych was on passage from St. Ives to Falmouth for overhaul.
A strong W.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. As the life-boat...
General Caulfield
COURTMACSHERRY, Co. CORK.—On the 12th January, at about 11 A.M., information was received that a large barque was embayed. On arriving at the Harbour point she grounded on the bar in about 18 feet of water. The wind was blowing from S.W. at...
Sorata
Falmouth, Cornwall. — At 9.15 on the night of the 9th of September, 1951, the St. Anthony coastguard telephoned that a yacht three miles south-east-by-south of St. Anthony Point was flying a flag and using only one of her sails. At 9.30 the...
Dunluce
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At about 4 P.M. on the llth August, 1939, the second coxswain of the life-boat reported that the motor fishing boat Dunluce, of Portrush, with a crew of four on board, was in need of help off Curran Point. A moderate...