LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
City of Ghent
Cadgwith, Cornwall.—At 8.27 on the evening of the 15th of November, 1955, the motor vessel City of Ghent, of Dublin, wirelessed that she had run ashore about three miles north-east- by-east of Lizard, but had later re- floated and was...
Pippa
REFLOATED YACHT Exmouth, Devon. At 1.25 p.m. on iyth May, 1964, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that a yacht was in a dangerous position on the Pole sands and at 1.40 the life-boat Michael Stephens was launched, taking her boarding...
Winner (1)
Holy Island, and North Sunderland, Northumberland.—At 10.40 on the night of the 26th of August, 1956, the coastguard reported that the fishing boat Winner of Holy Island, skippered by the life-boat coxswain, which had left at 5.30 that...
Pegasus
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 30th of December, 1956, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that the Dutch vessel Pegasus, of Groningen, was on fire 25 miles south-west of Portland Bill and that her deck cargo was...
None (2)
Galway Bay. At 3.30 on the after- noon of the 16th of March, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message from a doctor on Clare Island requesting the use of the life-boat to take a patient from Inishturk Island to the...
Books
Books The Story Of The Dover Lifeboats The Story Of The Hoylake and West Kirby Lifeboats written and published by Jeff Morris, prices in text Jeff Morris, Honorary Archivist of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society, continues his prolific...
Category: Articles
An American Lifeboat In Britain
With the 25-knot Trent and Severn lifeboats becoming increasingly common sights around the coasts of the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, Nicholas Leach looks at the history of the Waveney class, the first 'fast' lifeboat to...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
CEMAES, ANGLESEY. — The 30-feet 6- oared Life-boat, at Cemlyn, on the coast of Anglesey, has been transferred from that place to Cemaes, about four miles to the eastward. Since the lighthouse has been placed on one of the islands opposite...
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Margaret Armstrong: Life-Boat Heroine
THE small fishing-village of Cresswell, in Northumberland, lies about twenty miles north of the mouth of the Tyne.
It is not easy of access to visitors, for the nearest railway station on the main line, between Newcastle...
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Lifeboat Services
J LIFEBOAT CREW INJURED AS MIZZEN MAST FALLS Six survivors snatched from yacht in Force 9 gale and heavy seas A service to a 50ft yacht by St Peter Port's Arun class lifeboat Sir William Arnold in atrocious weather conditions resulted in...
Category: Services