LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
— The NATIOHAI, •ION has formed another Life-boat establishment on the coast of Essex, for the better protection of the shipping which crowds the channels lead- ing to the Thames. The Life-boat had only been placed on its station at...
Category: Articles
Sarah Macdonald
At 12.30 P.M. on the 7th October the Coastguard received a telephone mes- sage from the Smalls Lighthouse stating that a schooner had struck a reef close by and was likely to become a total wreck; also that the crew had taken to the...
Rescue of Bathers In Distress
TWICE during th? past summer Life- boats have saved the lives of bathers who had got into difficulties. On each occasion the Life-boat was out on other duties and went to the rescue in the nick of time.
On the afternoon...
Category: Services
H.M. Mine Sweeper
H.M. Mine Sweeper • stranded on the Scroby Sands during a strong southerly gale on the 28th October. She made signals of distress, and in response the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was launched. While endeavouring to get near...
A Dinghy
Trapped under pier FOUR FISHERMEN in a 14ft dinghy, trapped among the girders under the central pier and being battered by the waves, were reported to the honorary secretary of Morecambe ILB station by HM Coastguard at 1458 on Sunday June 11...
Alice T.
During a whole westerly gale on Sunday the 22nd February informa- tion was received that a vessel in Wexford Bay was making signals of distress. The crew of the Life-boat were summoned, and the boat was launched as quickly as possible. On...
A Rowing Boat (2)
Youghal, Co. Cork. At 11.20 on the morning of the 7th of June, 1960, the coxswain informed the honorary secre- tary that a small rowing boat with, two boys on board was in a dangerous position outside the harbour. The honorary secretary and...
RAPID RESPONSE
When two teenage boys found themselves drifting out to sea, they soon realised they were in real danger. Luckily for them, trainee Crew Member Sam Shelley was close by
A warm summer’s day was winding down in Skinningrove...
Category: Articles
A Rowing Boat
Beaumaris, Anglesey. On the morn- ing of the 29th of January, 1958, the coxswain saw a rowing boat with three men on board in difficulties. They had gone out to the sandbanks off the mouth of the River Ogwen to collect mussels. With the...
Fishing Cobles
The cobles were off fishing on the 2nd April in a E.N.E. breeze when the sea commenced to grow and rendered their return very dangerous. In the absence of the coxswain with the fishermen, the signal- man of the Life-boat James Oowland very...