LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Brooks & Bentley
In a dramatic tribute to the power and force of nature's toughest and most volatile elements, the master jewellers of Brooks & Bentley are proud to announce a distinctive timepiece that embraces both cutting edge style together with...
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Celine
On the 18th March theLife-boat Lcetitia saved the crew of the schooner Celine, which -was wrecked on the Holm Sand in a strong N.B. gale.
The master having refused to abandon his vessel, the Life-boat had to return to the...
Two Boats, Two Rowing Boats, a Motor Boat, a 14-foot Boat
TWO YOUTHS SAVED—FOUR BOATS ESCORTED Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 11.20 on the morning of Sunday, the 29th September, 1963, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a small boat was in trouble off the river Tyne. This was confirmed by...
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Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—On the morning of the 17th of March, 1949, a westerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and at five o'clock a doctor on the Island of Eigg rang up Mallaig to ask if the life-boat could come to the...
Sea Knight
EMPTY CABIN CRUISER AND DINGHY FOUND Poole, Dorset. At 2.35 on the morning of the 30th September, 1962, the police informed the coastguard that two men were missing in a cabin cruiser. They had left twelve hours earlier to dig for bait at...
Duchess of Leith (1)
CURIOUS INCIDENT OFF SHERINGHAM Sheringham and Cromer, Norfolk. At about five o'clock on the afternoon of Thursday the 19th September, 1963, the Sheringham coxswain launched his crab boat to investigate a cabin cruiser, Duchess of Leith,...
A Night Rescue By Torbay
AT 9.20 on the night of the 30th of January, 1952, the Brixham coast- guard saw flashing signals outside Torbay about four miles north-east of Berry Head. They were unread- able, but they seemed to come from a vessel which was making no...
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Anglers in danger HAVING BEEN informed by the Seaham Coastguard, Co. Durham, at 1632 on Sunday, November 11, 1973, that a number of anglers had been cut off on the drum head at the end of the north pier of the harbour, and that they were in...
New Skylark
APRIL 17TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
During the afternoon the naval base reported a fishing boat in difficulties off Foreness Point, and the motor life-boat Agnes Cross, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 3.50 P.M....
A Ship and an Aeroplane
OCTOBER 20TH. - KILMORE, CO. WEX-FORD. At 6.30 in the evening a small tramp steamer was seen on her way westwards inside the Coningbeg Lightship, when two German aeroplanes attacked her. One aeroplane dropped three bombs, but they all missed...