LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rowing Dinghy
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1957, the no. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was finishing a demonstration of a rescue by breeches buoy during an exercise in Whitby harbour when a message was received that a small...
Anna Maria
GORLESTON.—On the11th November, at 7 P.M., the Life-boat Leicester went off to a vessel which was showing signals of distress in the roads, during a heavy gale from S.W. The vessel proved to be the brig Anna Maria, of Blyth, bound from...
An Aeroplane (174)
NOVEMBER 7TH . - ST IVES, CORNWALL.
A British aeroplane had come down on Gwithian Beach, St. Ives Bay, but the crew got ashore unaided. - Rewards, £20 18s..
A Helicopter
At 3.37 p.m. on I4th June, 1966, there was an alert that a helicopter had crashed in the Solent near West Lepe buoy. The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe left her moorings together with.
the IRB at 3.55 p.m. There was a...
A Yacht
Cliff rescue and yacht crew landed in one serviceThe ability of the Institution's inflatable lifeboats to work close inshore was well illustrated by a service carried out by Exmouth's D class on 13 August 1988 - a service which also...
La Quinta
Injured seaman A TANKER, La Quinta, approaching Salcombe bound for Liverpool with a member of her crew seriously injured was reported to the honorary secretary of Salcombe lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1157 on Saturday, 21 May. A...
Electric Spark, of Boston U.S
There is also a large life-boat on this station, named the St. Patrick, and that boat, on the 26th September, put off to the assistance of the ship Electric Spark, of Boston, U.S., which was observed off the coast with signals of distress...
Reja
Flamhorough, Yorkshire.—At about 10 P.M. on the 2nd April the coxswain received information of a steamer blowing, and believed to be ashore.
The weather was very foggy and a S.E.
wind was blowing, with a...
Gem
DIFFICULT TOWS Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.5 in the morning of the 28th of November, 1947, the life-boat coxswain picked up a message on his wireless from the local motor fishing vessel Gem, that her rudder had been broken, and the No. 1 motor...
Gem, of Hull
On the 8th January, during a strong westerly wind and heavy sea, a vessel was seen on shore on Carmarthen Bar with a signal of distress flying from her mast- head. The City of Manchester life-boat was quickly launched ; and, on approach- ing...