LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Onaway
DISMASTED YACHT TOWED IN Margate, Kent. At 11.22 on the morning of the 28th May, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht had been dismasted but that she was steaming ahead on her engines. The coxswain went to the coastguard...
Canores
Torbay, Devon. At 7.27 on the morning of the 17th of April, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Dutch coaster Vliestroom had asked for the help of a life-boat as she was standing by the yacht Canores. The yacht had lost...
Lifeboat Services
Scotland North Division Twenty-nine rescued JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT on Monday September 29, 1980, the deputy launching authority of Stornoway lifeboat station was informed by HM Coastguard that the 1,615 gross ton motor fishing vessel Junella...
Category: Services
Arion
SUNDERLAND, SOUTH OUTLET. While a whole gale was blowing from E.N.E., accompanied by a very heavy sea, snow and hail, on the 26th March, the threemasted schooner Arion, of Bremerhaven, laden with coal, stranded on Hendon Beach and became a...
A Dinghy
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 6th of October, 1956, a resident of Roa Island reported that a sixteen-feet dinghy had capsized in Walney Channel. At 2.30 the life- boat Herbert Leigh was launched. The sea was choppy,...
Rosco
On the llth January a telephone message was received from the Coastguard stating that a vessel was ashore opposite the Saltfleet Coastguard station. A thick fog prevailed at the time, with a moderate breeze and choppy sea. The crew of the...
Life-Boat Helper Killed on Slipway
MR. JAMES PENTREATH, a shore helper at the Penlee life-boat station, was killed in an accident when the Penlee life-boat was being rehoused on the 30th Decem- ber, 1961. Mr. R. W. Blewett, another helper, was injured at the same...
Category: Articles
A Life-Boat Story
A dozen of hearts ! and a dozen of hands! And the courage of death 1—'tis a York- shire boast; It was all they asked one November noon, When a hurricane blew on the Whitby coast.
For a cry came over the wailing sands,...
Category: Poetry
A Car
Car over cliff LATE ON THE EVENING OF THURSDAY JULY 24, 1986, the coastguard cliff rescue team were called to Port Soderick Bay, 2'/2 miles south of Douglas on the Isle of Man. A car with four people inside had driven over a 330 ft cliff...
Silver Jubilee Fleet Review
SPITHEAD, TUESDAY, JUNE 28: When her Majesty The Queen, aboard HMY Britannia, reviewed the Fleet as part of the celebrations marking her Silver Jubilee, three lifeboats of the Royal National Life-boat Institution were proud to take their...
Category: Articles