LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
William and Mary
MARCH 5TH. - ST. HELIER, JERSEY.
The local fishing boat William and Mary, which had gone to fish off Les Minquiers, was six hours overdue, and at eleven at night the motor life-boat Howard D was launched to search for her....
Carl Rosinius
NEW BRIGHTON.—The schooner Carl Rosinius, of Hangesund, bound for Liverpool in ballast, was seen stranded on Taylor's Bank, and signals were fired by the Crosby Lightvessel, during a W. wind, squally weather and a heavy sea on the 3rd...
The Coningbeg Lightvessel.
Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 8.30 on the evening of the 3rd of January, 1960, the honorary secretary was asked by theCommissioners of Irish Lights if the life-boat could land a sick man from the Coningbeg lightvessel. At 9.5 the life- boat Ann...
Your Letters
Ramsgate remembered Reading Ken Baker's letter in the Spring issue reminded me that I also had reason to be grateful to the Ramsgate lifeboat.
I also had the same experience as he but was taken aboard a small Dutch...
Category: Correspondence
Port Talbot (Aberavon Beach)
Port Talbot (Aberavon Beach) crew and station officials are photographed with their new D class inflatable lifeboat on Saturday March 24, the day she was officially handed over. The lifeboat was the gift of Port Talbot Round Table 335 and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Brooks & Bentley
A time for faith, hope and inspiration The poem 'Footprints' with its touching image of our Lord carrying us through troubled times, has provided hope and inspiration to millions all over the world. And now. Brooks & Bentley...
Category: Advertisement
Thundercat flips
FISTRAL BEACH | 30 MAY
When a powerboat flipped during a ThunderCat race, its rider was briefly knocked out. Her lifejacket kept her afloat until lifeguards arrived and, suspecting a spinal injury,...
Category: Articles
MISSING FOR DAYS
LOWESTOFT | 6 JUNE
After a Dutch yachtsman failed to reach his destination and days of radio silence passed, a Coastguard aircraft spotted him drifting 14 miles off Lowestoft. Coxswain John Fox launched with his fellow crew...
Category: Articles
The Motor Cruisers Sea Gull and Bill
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 7.12 on the evening of the 20th of August, 1951, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that a motor cruiser was aground on the Burbo Bank near R.4 Buoy in the Rock Channel. Two men had walked ashore from her leaving...
N.N.III
Eastbourne, Sussex. At 5.5. on the afternoon of the llth of December, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two red rockets had been reported in Norman's Bay, and that a boat was burning red flares about four miles...