LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pilot Me and Success
Whitby, Yorkshire, and Hartlepool, Durham.—In the early hours of the 12th March the Whitby motor fishing boats Pilot Me and Success put to sea. They were the only boats to go out, on account of the bad weather.
With the...
Matfen
At midnight on the 8th of March the look-out man reported a vessel on shore.
A strong S.E. wind was blowing at the time and the sea was heavy. The Good Hope .was launched and proceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the...
Carency
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 12.40 early on the morning of the 29th of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a trawler was ashore on the north side of Noss Head. At one o'clock the life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched in a slight...
Francesco Ciampa
The ship Francesco Giampa, of Castellamare, was observed, about noon on the 1st of May, making signals of distress, and the Life-boat William and Mary Devey was promptly launched to her assist- ance. The wind was blowing a fresh gale from...
Prairie Flower
WEXFORD.—While a moderate gale from W.S.W. to N.W. was blowing, accompanied by a rough sea, on the morning of the 16th April, signals of distress were seen flying on a fishing-smack. TheLife-boat .Andrew Pickard was launched at 9.45, sailed...
Daring innovation
To his friends and colleagues, David Stogdon appeared to live entirely without fear yet he was a survivor of at least two near-death experiences. In 1940, during the Second World War, the destroyer Brazen sank underneath the young naval...
Category: Articles
A Long Tow
BOWMAN B. A. C. LEGGE, of the Weymouth life-boat, has been awarded a framed letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., for the part he played in helping to bring in a yacht...
Category: Services
First Rescue Ever from a Hovercraft
ON the 17th September, 1962, a service of a unique kind was carried out when for the first time a rescue was effected by life-boat from a hovercraft. The hovercraft was the first to be used on public service in this country and operated...
Category: Services
A Smack
On the 19th October the Llandwyn life-boat put off to the assistance of a smack which was dragging her anchor off the south coast of the Island of Anglesea, the wind blowing a gale from the eastward at the time. With the aid of the...
Heron
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On the evening of the llth of September, 1950, a resi- dent informed the coastguard that a man in Southwold had reported a yacht in need of help, quarter of a mile north of Southwold pier. At 5.34 the coast- guard...