LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
DANGER RISING
As a frightened young couple shelter in a sea cave, powerful swells break over the rocks and the tide rises towards them. Will local lifeboat volunteers reach the trapped teens in time?
When a warm afternoon turned to cool...
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Trawlers Ben Bheula and Cyelse
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — At 10.40 in the morning of the llth of March, 1949, the Duntulm coastguard reported that the Fleetwood steam trawler Ben Bheula was leaking and in need of help two miles east of Castlebay, and the life-boat...
Life-Boat Crews
"MAN the Life-boat!" has become a household -word, and it may possibly prove of some interest to those who, have not had the opportunity of seeing different parts of the coast of England, or of studying the different types of the...
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Sisters, of Whitby
On the night of the 26th February, the brig Sisters, of Whitby, laden with coals, was driven on shore on the South Barber Sand, off Caistor. Her signals of distress being seen from the shore, the Caistor boatmen proceeded to launch the...
Adolph Hennecke
Longhope, Orkneys. At 2.46 on the morning of the 9th of June, 1960, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a lightkeeper at Dunnet Head had seen a red flare in the direction of the Island of Swona. At 3.10 the life-boat Thomas...
A Boat and a Dinghy
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 1.55 p.m. on i8th April, 1965, the bowman informed the honorary secretary that a small boat under oars was making poor progress about three-quarters of a Bile east of the station. The honorary lecretary...
Bjornhang
APRIL 5TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.
At 5 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore at Balcomie Bay. A strong N.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. At 5.25 A.M. the motor life-boat Nellie...
A Rowing Boat
Hythe, Kent.—8th August. Four boys were out in a rowing boat, but while a search was being made for them during the night, they returned unaided.—Rewards, £20 2s. 6d..
A Bronze Medal Service at Maryport
ON the morning of 17th January the 2,500-ton steamer Plawsworth, of New- castle-on-Tyne, which was at anchor off Workington, Cumberland, dragged her anchors in a south-west gale, and went ashore. A very heavy sea was...
Category: Services
Widder
TOWED BY TUG Walmer, Kent. At 3.30 p.m. on 9th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that he was watching the German motor vessel Widder, as she appeared to be in difficulties in the rough sea near Goodwin Fork. A local...