LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A taste for lifesaving
He owns a string of top eateries in London – so what is it that keeps restaurateur, chef and food writer Mark Hix coming back to the seaside?
There’s a force 7 off the Dorset coast, and...
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Lifeboat Services
12 MILE PASSAGE IN 30 KNOT WINDS Surfer saved by Atlantic after night search in severe weather The Thanks of the Institution on Vellum has been awarded to Nigel Sweeny, the helmsman of St Catherine's (Jersey, Channel Islands) lifeboat...
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Mim
Nov. 1ST. - STROMNESS, ORKNEYS. At 10.40 P.M. a message was received from the Kirkwall coastguard that a vessel was ashore at North Ronaldshay, sixty miles away. A fresh south-easterly wind was blowing, with a rough sea. At 11.15 P.M. the...
Fishing Boats (2)
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—About 8 o'clock in the morning of the 9th of February, 1949, the coastguard re- ported that ten local fishing boats were at sea and that the weather was getting worse, and the life-boat Tittie Morrison, Sheffield,...
A Royal Air Force Rescue Launch
Anstruther, Fifeshlre. — About two o'clock on the afternoon of the 15th of December, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a Royal Air Force rescue launch had picked up a badly injured airman from an R.A.F. heli- copter, which during...
A Yacht (1)
Two sailors were rescued from their capsized boat in May this year thanks to the eagle eyes of an 11-year-old boy from South Queensferry. Scott Findlater spotted an object floating in the water from his bedroom window and raised the alarm....
Adalina
Soon after mid- day on the 28th April, during a S.W.
gale accompanied by a rough sea, it was reported that a vessel was ashore on the Goodwins. The Life-boat Brad- ford proceeded to the Sands and found the fishing vessel...
Alexandra, of Whitstable
SEPTEMBER 14TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 5.55 in the evening a message was received from a call-box at Westcliff that men could be seen clinging to the mast of a yacht which had sunk, close to the Loway Buoy. A strong squally...
A Vessel (16)
DEC. 24TH. - RAMSGATE, AND WALMER, KENT. Three men in a motor boat left Ramsgate to go and see the Mahratta wreck and had not returned. The Ramsgate life-boat searched throughout the night and again on Christmas morning and the Walmer...
September (1)
SEPTEMBER MEETING RATHCOURSEY, CO. CORK. While sailing a racing dinghy on the morning of the 23rd July, 1940, a boy and girl were capsized in East Ferry Inlet, Queenstown Harbour. A squally S.W. wind was blowing against the strongly ebbing...
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