LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mtoto
Three rescued in high winds... and mud When Whitstable's Atlantic was called out to rescue two adults and an eightyear- old from a 24ft yacht the crew found themselves dealing not only with breaking seas and Force 6-7 winds but also...
Lifeboat Services
South East Division October hurricane BRONZE MEDAL AT 0559 ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1987 during the height of the infamous hurricane which hit Southern England that day, Thames Coastguard MRSC reported to Coxswain/Mechanic Robin Castle, of...
Category: Services
Two Brothers
MAY 30TH. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. Shortly after 1 P.M. the local fishing smack Two Brothers, with a crew of two, went to sea. As a moderate westerly wind was blowing with a moderatesea the smack was watched, and at about 4 P.M. she...
Jolly Good Show...
The younger generation of RNLI members were also excited to meet 'Stormy Stan' - the colourful character from their own Storm Force News magazine - who roamed the aisles shaking hands with them.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
1d. For Each Life Rescued
THE Herts Advertiser of St. Albans, writes that one of the honorary workers for the St. Albans branch, when she read the record of lives rescued by lifeboats during the first month of the war, gave to the branch one penny for each...
Category: Donations
A Sailing Boat
Buckle, Banffshire.—At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 9th of May, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a small sailing boat was in difficulties three and a quarter miles north-north-west of Buckie. At 3.32 the life-boat Glencoe, Glasgow...
Porpoise
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 26th of October, 1957, the life-boat Edian Courtauld left her moorings to attend the ceremony at Clacton of scattering the ashes of the late Coxswain A. C. Potter, of...
Happy Home, Florence and Ross Gill
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 8.15 on the evening of the 9th of February, 1953, the coxswain learned from the skipper of the fishing boat Happy Home that the motor fishing drifter Florence, of Glandore, was burning flares south- east of...
Sixty-Two Rescued
ON the 17th of January this year—a night of a north-westerly gale and sleet showers—the motor vessel Tapti, of London, ran aground on the Eileen Soa rocks in the Gunna Sound between the islands of Tiree and Coll in the Outer Hebrides. She...
Category: Services
Gipsy Queen
LIZARD.—The schooner Gipsy Queen, of Padstow, bound from London for Liverpool, with cement, struck on Mynheer Rocks during a moderate gale from the N.E. on the evening of the 13th March, and showed signals of distress. The Lifeboat Edmund...