LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gellie
aunhtinastorm As high winds and torrential rain caused chaos across Britain on 7 July 2004, two people on their yacht faced storm force conditions 35 miles south of The Lizard, CornwallLaunching The Lizard Tyne class lifeboat was tricky in...
A Fishing Boat
Barmouth, Merionethshire.—At 12.50 on the afternoon of the 9th of July, 1957, the police reported that a fishing boat appeared to be in difficulties off Llwgngwril. The boat was kept under observation from the coastguard look- out by the...
Gannet
NEWBURGH, ABERDEENSHIBE.—Signals of distress having been seen from a vessel stranded on the North Sands during a moderate S.W. wind and a choppy sea, on the 27th January, the crew of the Lifeboat 'Alexander Charles and William Aird were...
Redhead
Falmouth, Cornwall.—During the afternoon of the 15th October, 1938, the St.
Anthony coastguard reported a motor yacht on fire about two miles south of Portscatho. The wind was light and the sea smooth. The motor life-boat B...
Minnie, Silver Line and Star of Hope
Runs wick, Yorkshire.—At 6.30 in the morning of the 27th of August, 1948, the Staithes fishing boats Minnie, Silver Line and Star of Hope went to the fishing grounds. The wind was light, from the north-west, but the sea was rough and...
Guiding Star
WHITBURN.—The Life-boat William and Charles was launched at 11.30 p.m.
on the 1st June and landed a man from the coble Guiding Star. Whilst he was out attending to his crab-pots, a heavy sea rose and he was in considerable...
Aloma (2)
Portrush, Co. Antrim; Campbeltown, Argyllshire; and Donaghadee, Co. Down.
—On the morning of the 12th of July, 1952, a man, together with his wife and two sons, were cruising off the coast of County Antrim in the...
None (2)
A CLIFF SAVE AT 2.25 p.m. on 10th June, 1972, the coxswain of the Clovelly, North Devon, life-boat was advised by a member of the public that two men were trapped on the cliff face below Gallant Rock to the west of Clovelly. Gesturing hand...
Pilot Me, Provider and Success
Whitby, Yorkshire.—Early on the morning of the 6th December, 1937, the local motor fishing boats Pilot Me, Provider and Success put out. Just before 2 P.M. they were seen returning, and as the sea was then breaking very strongly across the...
A Speed Boat
Speedboat sinks ON THE MORNING of Easter Sunday April 7, 1985, Brixham coastguard received a report from a member of the public that a speedboat had sunk on Pole Sands and that there were some people in the water. Fifteen minutes later, at...