LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Venus
Hastings, Sussex. At 11.26 on the morning of the 6th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small craft was anchored between a mile and a half and two miles south-west of Galley Hill,...
Flotilla Special
International Gathering The week of midsummer 1999 will be remembered for a very long time by thousands of lifeboat people from the UK and Republic of Ireland and right around the world The unprecedented spectacle of the lifeboat sail-past...
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Thea, of Groningen
APRIL 2 8TH. - BRIDLINGTON AND FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. On the night of the 27th the Dutch motor vessel Thea, of Groningen, bound with a cargo of china clay from Grangemouth to Antwerp, foundered in Bridlington Bay. She had eight on board....
Lifeboats on Loch Ness
As if they won’t face enough challenges, the RNLI’s newest crew will be keeping an eye out for monsters as the charity takes over the Coastguard rescue station on Loch Ness.
At the time of writing, a trial was about to...
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Harmston
About 7 A.M. on the 3rd November, the same Life-boat launched to the brigantine Harmston, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, which vessel was stranded on the Middle Cross Sand off Caister. A gale from the S.S.E, was blowing, with the usual heavy seas on...
Bilboa, of Seatham
Soon after dark on the 28th December, signal lights and rockets were seen in the direction of the West Scroby Sands, by the beachmen at Caister, on the Norfolk coast. The same life-boat was at once launched, and, proceeding to the sands,...
Guiding Star
CEMAES, ANGLESEY. — Information was brought to this Life-boat Station on the morning of the 14th February of a wreck on Skerries Island. The wind was blowing half a gale from S.W. at the time. The Lifeboat Ashtonian was immediately launched...
Cambria
— At 8 P.M. on the 19th January the watchman re- ported that a vessel had stranded on the "Inner Binks," about one mile S.E.
of the Watch House. Robert Cross, the Coxswain of the Life-boat, at once went to the...
Midge
On the afternoon of the 12th September the Rt. Hon. J. H. Thomas, M.P., Secretary of State for the Dominions, went out in the motor boat Midge, with a friend and two members of his staff, to fish. The engine broke down and the boat began...
Livonia and Bon Espoir
Selsey, Sussex.—On the morning of the 18th July the coastguard reported a small steamer in distress about eight miles in a north-westerly direction from Selsey look-out. Half a gale was blowing from the S.W., and the sea was rough. The motor...