LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
North Eastern Division Cut off by tide INFORMATION THAT A MAN had been reported cut off by the tide below the cliffs in the vicinity of the Coastguard lookout was passed to the honorary secretary of Whitby lifeboat station at 1630 on Sunday,...
Category: Services
Surfacing alone
Without their powerless support boat, two divers found themselves alone in the North Sea ...
The crew of the Humber lifeboat had just returned from a training exercise when they received the...
Category: Articles
Spinel
Troon, Ayrshire. — At 4.15 in the morning of the 29th of February, 1948, the Kildonan coastguard asked for the life-boat's help for a vessel ashore one mile east of Pladda, and at five o'clock the motor life-boat Sir David Richmond,...
Minerva
HUNA.—On the 8th August the Norwegian barque Minerva, in trying to pass through the Sound between the Pentland Skerries and South Ronaldshay during a fresh breeze from the S.W., was carried by the strong current to the north side of the...
Flylyte
Margate, Kent.—About seven o'clock in the evening of the 7th of August, 1949, the coastguard reported a motor yacht ashore on Margate Sands four and a half miles north-west of the lookout, and the life-boat The Lord Southborough, Civil...
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Lerwick, Shetlands.—At midnight of February 27th, 1947, a doctor tele- phoned that he was needed for an urgent maternity case at Quarff, and snow prevented him going by road. He asked for the life-boat's help. The motor life-boat Lady...
Oakdene
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 11.8 on the morning of the 20th of January, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a coaster had broken down and was drifting on to the rocks on which the Longstone light- house stands. A...
Skegness:
Skegness: A Balcar 105 helicopter was seen to crash into the sea, five miles east south east of Skegness, on the afternoon of Tuesday July 24, 1984. At 1306 Skegness's 15ft 6in D class inflatable lifeboat launched from the beach manned... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Cobles
MAY 16TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
About 8.30 in the morning five small fishing cobles were expected to return. The tide was ebbing and there was a rough sea on the bar, making it very dangerous to cross. At 9.15 the No. 2...
Josue III
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.34 on the evening of the 20th of July, 1951, the coastguard reported a yacht aground off the East Pier. At 7.42 the life- boat Prudential left her moorings.
The sea was smooth with a light easterly...