LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
King Ford
At 10 P.M. on the 3rd March the Coastguard received a telephone message from the Kentish Knock Light-vessel stating that a vessel was making distress signals on the Kentish Knock Sands. Within a quarter of an hour the No. 1 Life-boat Eliza...
A Surfboard
Short service iust 500 yards from station - but a surfer's life is saved Ashort but very difficult service by North Sunderland's D class inflatable lifeboat on 18 May 1996 undoubtedly saved the life of a surfer, and also led to the...
A French Trawler
Margate, Kent. At 10.10 p.m. on 8th September, 1965, red jlares were seen one mile east of the north-east Spit buoy. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. //) launched at 10.34 in a strong gale from the west with a very rough sea....
None (1)
Man in the Run HEARING FROM the Coastguard, at 1546 on November 9, 1974, that a 999 call had reported that a man had fallen into the Run at Mudeford, both Michael Parker and his wife Sally, the station administrative officer, ran out of...
Alarm, of Belfast
On the 23rd March, the ship Alarm, of Belfast, was driven into Ballycotton Bay, during a strong gale of wind, and came to anchor under shelter of the island. As the gale increased, however, she dragged her anchors and drifted towards the...
Henrietta (1)
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT TORBAY DEC. 16TH. - TORBAY, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON. In the early afternoon the schooner Henrietta, of Truro, with a crew of seven men, was carried by the strong spring tides and a gale from the east-north-east to the...
Elizabeth
On 16th February the ketch Elizabeth, of Bideford, when endeavouring to enter Bude Harbour in a heavy ground sea, got into difficulties, and was driven on to the rocks on the north side of the harbour, where seas continually broke over her,...
Sagacity
OCTOBER 28TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. As the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was returning to her station at about 2.55 P.M. after an unsuccessful search for an aeroplane she heard two loud explosions, and on reaching Spurn Point she...
A PADDLE TOO FAR
How many people does it take to save a life? As a mother and son found out last summer, it can take a village
It was almost 5am on Tuesday 14 August when the crew at Skerries Lifeboat Station were woken by their pagers. A...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
INJURED SEAMAN LANDED IN SEVERE GALE AND COMPLETE DARKNESS Force 9 gale and snow squalls hinder Atlantic 21 rescue in The WashHelmsman Alan Clarke of Hunstanton lifeboat has been awarded a bar to his Bronze medal for a service in the...
Category: Services