LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
James, of Arbroath
The Life-boat People's Journal, No. 2, stationed at this place, was launched on the night of the 18th Jan., at 5.20 P.M., and proceeded, through a heavy sea and S.W. gale, to the assistance of the schooner James, of Arbroath, which had...
A Rubber Dinghy.
Hartlepool, Co. Durham.—At 11.19 on the morning of the 26th of July, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that three people were drifting out to sea off Crindon Dene in a rubber dinghy.
The life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil...
H.M.M.S. 106
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT LOWESTOFT SEPTEMBER 30TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. At 9.40 in the evening the naval authorities asked that the motor life-boat Michael Stephens should go out to the help of a vessel which was ashore about one and a half...
Rosemary, Gratitude and Betty
Scarborough, Yorkshire. On the morning of the 13th of November,1959, the weather grew rapidly worse, and at 8.15 the life-boat J. G. Graves of Sheffield was launched as there were several local fishing cobles at sea.
There...
Rescue from Swedish Vessel Near Cliffs
AT 1.40 on the afternoon of the 26th cf December, 1956, the honorary secretary of the Lerwick, Shetland Isles, life-boat station, Mr. P. Bruce Laurenson, learnt from the coastguard that the Swedish motor vessel Samba was drifting 122 miles...
Category: Services
A Motor Boat (1)
Blyth, Northumberland. At 8.42 on the evening of the 18th of August, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small motor boat was drifting on to Seaton rocks. The life- boat Winston Churchill (Civil Service No. 8) was...
Lifeboats In Action
Injured yachtsman saved from certain deathD A mayday call from an injured sailor who had lost control of a yacht was relayed to Falmouth Coastguard on 29 October 2003.
The Royal Navy (RN) search and rescue helicopter from...
Category: Services
Award for Licensee of Inn
Ox the evening of the 9th of August, 1957, two boys and a girl were bathing off the beach at Walberswick, some two hundred yards south of the south pier of the harbour at Southwold, Suffolk. A strong south-by-east breeze was blowing and...
Category: Awards
Calaharis and Moss Rose, and White Knight
North Sea Hurricane FORCE 9-10 north north east wind; rough sea with a heavy swell; low water; visibility down to about a half to one mile on an overcast morning with frequent hail and snow squalls; Flamborough lifeboat already at sea...
Susilla (1)
High and dry on the Solway Firth From the shifting sand and mud banks of the Solway Firth, the grounded yacht Susiila radioed for help. It took a joint service by Workington and Silloth Lifeboats to locate the yacht and find a way to reach...