LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gleaner
The Life-boat Duncan was launched from this station at 6 A.M. on the 10th October last, and rescued 2 men from a perilous position on board the fishing smack Gleaner. A sudden storm had compelled a number of < fishing vessels,...
Coxswain Rawcliffe of Fleetwood
COXSWAIX HERBERT RAWCLIFFE, who was appointed coxswain of the Fleet- wood life-boat on the 1st of January.
1954. lost his life in February in an accident at sea in the course of his duties as a Trinity House pilot.
Category: Obituaries
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SWIMMER TAKEN ABOARD On 3rd August, 1964, while the reserve life-boat White Star, on temporary service at Porthdinllaen, was returning from a regatta at Aberdaron, a swimmer was seen swimming against a very strong tide race between Maen...
Canton of Scarborough
On the 29th No- vember, the smack Canton, of Scarborough, was observed with signals of distress during a strong wind. The Annie life-boat went off and succeeded in placing the vessel in comparative safety outside St. Andrew's Harbour at...
H.M. M.F.V. No. 1106
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.
•—At 7.59 on the evening of the 10th of November, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that H.M. M.F.V. No. 1106 had run aground off Spittal Point, and at 8.20 the life-boat J. and W. was...
Precarious position
New Brighton’s B class lifeboat Charles Dibdin and hovercraft Hurley Spirit were called out on Friday 25 March when a yacht crewed by experienced local sailors got stuck in mud. The yacht was leaning...
Category: Articles
Critical choice
With his dive buddy unconscious on the seabed, Luke Corkill faced a split-second decision: should he risk the bends by bringing her up fast, or face handing a body over to RNLI crews?
Dive...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
Western Division Drifting on rocks ST ANN'S COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of St David's lifeboat station at 1138 on Saturday March 11 that MFV 7, on passage from Fishguard to Pembroke, had engine failure west of St...
Category: Services
Marion
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 12.19 on the afternoon of the 2nd of June, 1953, the coastguard told the life-boat cox- swain that a motor boat appeared to be in distress three quarters of a mile off Pakefield and was flying distress signals. At...
Adieu
BARGE FOUND AWASH AND TAKEN IN TOW Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.24 on the evening of the 16th October, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the barge Adieu, with a man and a woman on board, was aground north of the south-east...