LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
KNIT A PAIR OF LIFESAVERS!
Are you a knitter? Woollen gifts have always helped raise funds and made great bespoke presents for loved ones. We asked one of our volunteers for a popular pattern that won’t tax the needles too much, but will still go down...
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Quick action saves life of fellow lifeboatman lost overboard It is particularly difficult for a lifeboat crew to go to the rescue of somebody that they know. It makes it even harder when the casualty is a fellow lifeboatman. The crew of...
A Steamer (4)
FEBRUARY 28TH. - FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
The life-boat put out at the request of the naval authorities to search for survivors from a steamer, but on reaching the position given, she found naval vessels exploding depth...
Sallie
At 6 A.M. on the 31st January the fishing cobles put to sea to haul their lines, and at 9 A.M.
the wind and sea increased. Twenty- one of the cobles got into safety, but the coble Sallie was in great danger when she was...
Rose of England
Tees mouth, and Redcar, Yorkshire.— At 6.40 in the evening of the 23rd of May, 1948, the South Gare coastguard reported both to Teesmouth and Redcar that a rowing boat, with three boys on board, was in difficulties near broken water...
Avonglen
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — Shortly before 6 P.M. on the 7th July the coastguard reported a vessel ashore on the Scaurs of Cruden. The weather was fine, but later the S.W. wind freshened, and as there was a fairly heavy swell, it was decided...
Golden Years
Drifting on to lee shore WITH WINDS OF STORM FORCE 10 tO 11 and a very heavy sea starting to break over the harbour wall, Acting Coxswain Thomas Devenny had set watch at Troon lifeboat store on the morning of Thursday October 18, 1984. At...
Kestrel and Anemone III
Dungeness, Kent.—At 12.27 in the afternoon of the 25th of August, 1948, the Jury Gap coastguard telephoned that a yacht was making very heavy weather about one and a half miles south-south-east of the Gap, and the motor life-boat...
Five Men Rescued from Dutch Coaster
AT 1.8 on the afternoon of the 7th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Cloughey life-boat station in County Down, Mr.
S. C. B. Bryans, that the Dutch coaster Frida Blokzijl of 270 tons was...
Category: Services
Fishing Cobles
When four of the fishing cobles were out fishing on the 5th January the sea became heavy, and the danger flag, intimating that it was not safe for them to enter the harbour, was hoisted.
Shortly after one o'clock it was...