LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Agnes
At daybreak on the morning of the 28th October, a vessel was seen stranded amongst the breakers about a mile to the eastward of this port.
The Lossiemouth life-boat was at once launched and pulled through a very heavy sea...
Solskin, of Oslo
Aberdeen.—At 11.50 on the morning of the 9th of November, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Solskin, of Oslo, needed help sixty miles east of Tod Head. At 12.44 the no. 1 life-boat Hilton Briggs put out. There was a heavy...
Fishing Boats
The No. 2 Life-boat was also launched, at about 11.30 A.M. on the 8th August, to the assistance of several fishing boats which had been caught in a gale from the S., and were in great danger while making for Montrose. The Life-boat remained...
Bereby
SEPTEMBER 24TH. - NEWCASTLE, CO.
DOWN. At 3 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that a ship was ashore at Ringfad Point, Killough, and the motor life-boat L. P. and St. Helen was launched at 3.20 A.M. A S.E.wind was blowing,...
Valri
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 5.57 a.m. on 23rd May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing flares at Whittaker Beacon. The life-boat Isabella and Edward Irvin was launched at 6.22 in a strong westerly wind...
Eirion Lass
ABERSOCH, CARNARVONSHIRE. — While the wind was blowing, with the force of a whole gale to a storm, from W.N.W. to N.W., with terrific squalls and a very heavy sea, on the 12th Jan. last, signals of distress were exhibited by the schooner...
Rocks and Shoals
Four very experienced coxswains were in London last May to be awarded medals for bravery. For all of them, Michael Berry of Jersey, Michael Scales of Guernsey, Michael Grant of Selsey and Thomas Cocking of St Ives, it was at least their...
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SICK BOY TAKEN OFF ISLAND Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 9.45 on the evening of the 20th April, 1963, the life-boat motor mechanic informed the coastguard that he could see a fire on Copeland Island, where he knew about eight people were spending...
Eglantine
At 1.20A.M. on the 16th April the Coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore on the Brigg, and the Life-boat Hollon the Third was launched to help her. She found the vessel was the steamer Eglantine, of North Shields, bound for Havre with...
Lady Amanda
Injured couple rescued from yacht aground in heavy surfThe Chairman of the RNLI, Michael Vernon, has written a letter of congratulation to helmsman William Walker-Jones of Criccieth's inshore lifeboat following the rescue of two people...