LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Close call
Swanage volunteers were rudely awoken at 5.25am one Sunday. Within just 10 minutes both station lifeboats were alongside a sinking vessel
On 9 October 2010, Swanage lifeboat and shore crews had...
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Igonda
Plymouth, South Devon.—At 7.52 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the Rame Head coastguard reported that a yacht was showing distress sig- nals near Penlee Point. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put out at 8.15. There was...
Tsunami
141 hour service in severe gale A MESSAGE FROM THE YACHT Coronade to the Sunk Pilot Cutter, saying that a red flare had been sighted southward, in the direction of the Long Sand, was intercepted by Walton Coastguard at 1621 on Sunday,...
The Great Gale of February, 1871
Memorial Service at Bridlington.
THIS year, as for many years past, Bridlington held a memorial service for the six Bridlington life-boatmen who lost their lives in the great gale of 10th February, 1871.
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Ocean Spray (1)
FOUR LIFE-BOATS IN SEARCH OF A YACHT Padstow, Cornwall, Clovelly, Appledore, and Dfracombe, Devon.—On the llth of November, 1947, the motor yacht Ocean Spray, with a crew of two men and a woman, ran«into very bad weather off the north...
Shoreline Section
THE BOAT SHOW at Earls Court in January went with a bang this year! First there was the bomb. Luckily no one was injured, and the way in which everyone walked quietly and calmly to the exits and cleared the building in a matter of minutes...
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The Swedish Training Ships Falken and Gladan and Jinty
Torbay, Devon.—On the evening of the 7th of August, 1948, a sudden gale got up from the south-east, and anxiety was felt for the crews of the two Swedish training ships Falken and Gladan,. anchored off Paignjon for the yacht racing in Torbay...
Albas (1)
High and dry on the Goodwins RAMSGATE HONORARY SECRETARY Was informed by Dover Straits Coastguard at 2025 on Thursday, September 11, 1975, that, following a number of reports of red flares sighted over the Goodwin Sands, Walmer lifeboat had...
The S.S. Stephen W. Kearny, of San Francisco
NOVEMBER 24TH. - WALMER, KENT. A message from the S.S. Stephen W. Kearny, of San Francisco, was received through the coastguard.
It said that she would be anchoring in The Downs at two o’clock that afternoon and had asked...