LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Chances
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 9.34 a.m. on 3rd July, 1965, the honorary secretary heard that the Barrow Deep lightvessel had reported a yacht aground and lying on her side on the Sunk Sands.
Weather conditions did not...
Onaway
DISMASTED YACHT TOWED IN Margate, Kent. At 11.22 on the morning of the 28th May, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht had been dismasted but that she was steaming ahead on her engines. The coxswain went to the coastguard...
The Lady Olive
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—Shortly before five o'clock in the afternoon of the 22nd of August, 1948, the coast- guard telephoned that a yacht was off Hove, with a strong on-shore breeze blowing from the south-west, and a rough sea. The...
Glebe
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 4.50 ill the afternoon of the 7th of April, 1948, a fisherman of Lulworth Cove came ashore and reported that a yacht and its dinghy appeared to be in difficulties off Whitenose. Ten minutes later the motor life-boat...
Cymba
Sailor rescued as yacht is driven on to lee shoreThe coxswain and helmsman of Whitby's two lifeboats, the 44ft Waveney White Rose of Yorkshire and the D class inflatable Gwynaeth, have both been awarded bronze medals for gallantry for...
Sarina
Yacht in shoal water RED FLARES were sighted to seaward south of the harbour by Lowestoft Coastguard on the morning of April 13.
The honorary secretary, informed at 0448, gave instructions for maroons to be fired and the...
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
September Meeting.
St. Helier, Jersey. — On the 17th May the sailing boat Seafarer had put out with three people on board. On the following day, as she had not returned, it was decided to make a search. Mr. J. Langlois lent...
Category: Services
The Fawn
About noon on the 31st July a small fishing smack, the Fawn, of Yarmouth, was seen to be aground on the east side of the Barber Sands. As the sea, which was very broken on the sands, commenced break- ing over the smack, and the crew had no...
Hadrien Dean
Hadrien Dean - Bridlington lifeboat station Assistant Tractor Driver.
Category: Obituaries
Lifeboat Celebrations: Remembering the Past - Looking to the Future
Jersey centenary While visiting Jersey on Friday June 1, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, a Patron of the RNLI, attended a service of thanksgiving and blessing for St Helier lifeboat station and presented a vellum to mark the...
Category: Articles