LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Apeloiter
Weymouth, Dorset - At 12.02 a.m.
on 9th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was anchored one hundred yards offshore of Chesil Cove. Two men on board had come ashore to obtain fuel...
Bilberry
On igth June, 1967, the life-boat Frank Spiller Locke proceeded to the yacht Bilberry.
A full account of this service, for which a special award was granted, appears on page 231..
Pictured During the Presentation of This Year's Cheque for £1,000
Pictured during the presentation of this year's cheque for £1,000 are. from left to right, Don Galbraith, yacht club commodore; Brian Hurst, chairman of the Castletown branch; Rod Haire, representing Royal Life; Jane Galbraith,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Towing In!
L to R: Barry Knaggs, Mark Reeves, Skipper Michael Picknett and Andy Beevis tow the stricken yacht to safety. (Redcar Crew Member Cordon Young. en-Redcar and Seahouses Crew Member Michael Hoyle, and Dave Bond of Cleveland Fire Brigade also... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy (1)
JULY 9TH. - MARGATE, KENT. An empty, waterlogged, rubber dinghy was picked up, and it was learned that an airman had been saved by an Admiralty trawler and a dead body picked up by an Admiralty yacht. - Rewards, £5 11s. 6d..
The Life-Boat Service and Salvage
ALTHOUGH, in the course of its 127 years of work the Institution has saved, or helped to save, thousands of vessels from destruction, it makes no claims for salvage. Its sole purpose is the rescue of life. When, however, life- boats are able...
Category: Articles
Black Maria
Fowey, Cornwall.—On the evening of the 16th of September, 1950, the yacht Black Maria, with no one on board, broke her moorings at Fowey. In a rough sea and a fresh south-westerly gale, she was swept up the harbour, striking the life-boat...
Josue III
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.34 on the evening of the 20th of July, 1951, the coastguard reported a yacht aground off the East Pier. At 7.42 the life- boat Prudential left her moorings.
The sea was smooth with a light easterly...
Fairwood
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 11.59 on the night of the 29th of July, 1956, it was reported that the yacht Fairwood was dragging her anchor close to the life-boat's moorings. The life-boat Cunard, on temporary duty at the station, put out. The sea...
Wisp
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. •— On Sunday the 10th September, 1939, the coastguard reported that the sailing yacht Wisp, of Shoreham, had capsized about one and a half miles to the south-ward of the harbour entrance. A fresh westerly wind was...