LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lord Tennyson
At 8.30 P.M., on the 22nd January, the Coastguard at Rye Harbour reported that a vessel in the bay was making distress signals.
Without delay the Life-boat John William Dudley was launched and proceeded to the craft,...
of Hellens, of Alloa
On the 2nd December, the crew of the Miriam life-boat assembled and got everything in readiness for launch- ing to the assistance of the sloop Hellens, of Alloa, which was observed in the offing, off Buckie, during a severe storm from the...
March (1)
MARCH MEETING ROBIN HOOD'S BAY, YORKSHIRE. At noon on the 6th of September, 1942, the Scarborough motor fishing coble Florence was fishing in Robin Hood’s Bay. The weather was line, with a light westerly wind and a smooth sea. The coble...
Category: Services
Loch Fleet
Tynemouth, Northumberland. — At 8.25 in the morning of the 28th of November, 1951, the coastguard tele- phoned that a message had been received from the trawler Loch Fleet, of Aberdeen, through the Cullercoats radio station. She was making...
Emperor and Girl of Devon
CAISTER.— At 9 P.M. on the 13th October, the No. 2 Life-boat Godsend was launched during a strong gale from the N. and a very heavy sea, signals of distress having been shown by the schooner Emperor, of Banff, and the three-masted schooner...
None (1)
Exmouth: On Sunday June 12 Exmouth D class inflatable lifeboat, manned by Helmsman Clive Harris and Crew Member Christopher Douglas, launched to help a 14-year-old boy cut off by the tide on the rocks at Orcombe Point. Helmsman Harris first...
A Fishing Smack
At 11.30 P.M. on the 16th November, "flare-up" signals on the Scroby Sand being observed from the Life-boat Station, the No. 2 Life-boat was launched, and an fishing smack aground, surrounded by ...
Anita Mar
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire - At 1.45 p.m. on 29th July, 1967, while the life-boat Lilly Wainwright was on passage to Conway, the crew were informed that a dinghy had capsized off Orme's Head.
There was a fresh south...
William (1)
HILBRE ISLAND, CHESHIRE.—At about 5 P.M. on the 7th April, while a whole gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea and cold and squally weather, the Coxswain of the Life-boat who was working on the island, saw a flat driven...
Westward Ho
At 1.30 A.M. on the 7th August a tele- phone message was received from the Gunfleet Lighthouse stating that the Kentish Knock Light-vessel was firing signals for a ship in distress. The crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 were...