LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Yarmouth Isle of Wight and Poole:
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, and Poole: While on passage from Guernsey to Portsmouth on Thursday August 19, 1982, the 30ft ferro-concrete gaff sloop Fairweather Father broke her rudder 18 miles south west by south of the Needles Lighthouse. A... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inshore Rescue Boats Services
From October, 1963, to March, 1964, the inshore rescue boats were launched on service four times. The following is the list of services or attempted services: Date 1963 October 5: October 13: 1964 March 15: March 20: Station Whitstable...
Category: Services
Nick Botham
Nick Botham Helmsman of Whitby's D Class inflatable during a service in heavy breaking seas to the yacht Cymba, for which he was awarded the Institution's Bronze medal.
Whitby's Waveney class lifeboat also took... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Groombridge Award
The Walter and Elizabeth Groombridge Award for the most meritorious rescue by an inshore lifeboat crew in 2009 has been given to Whitstable Helm Jonathan Carter and Crew Members Tony Martin and Henry Thomson. The crew saved the life of a man...
Category: Articles
Alamein
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 12.31 on the afternoon of the 25th of August.
1957, the Foreland coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht seemed to be drifting off Xew Ground buoy but was not showing distress signals. The vacht...
Marzealine
Weymouth. Dorset.—At 1.12 on the afternoon of the 1st of August, 1956, a local sailing club asked if the life- boat would put off to the help of the yacht Marzealine, of Le Havre, which, after going ashore, had refloated but was in danger of...
Isle of Rona
Padstow, Cornwall.—At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 19th of August, 1956, the Trevose Head coastguard rang up to say that the Camelford police had reported a small sailing boat in diffi- culties near Tintagel Point. The no. 1 life-boat Joseph...
Orca
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 4.30 on the morning of the 28th of September.
1956, the Polruan coastguard tele- phoned that a red flare had been seen half a mile west of Polperro. At 4.50 the life-boat Deneys lieitz put...
Victoria
Dover, Kent.—At 1.14 in the after- noon of the 3rd of December, 1949, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that a yacht had been reported in difficulties five miles south-south-east of the South Goodwin Light-vessel. The life-boat Southern...
Maggie May
Ramsgate, Kent.—Between noon and one in the afternoon of the llth of July, 1950, the coastguard reported a sailing yacht apparently in danger of going aground. She was originally on a northerly course, but later headed south. He thought she...