LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Almondine
The Humber, Yorkshire.—At 3.5 A.M.
on the 13th December, 1937, the watchman at the life-boat station reported that a vessel had run aground on the Trinity Sands. She appeared to be in no immediate danger, and the tide was...
Ethel and Mother's Joy
The Coastguard reported about 4 P.M. on 4th December that the two local fishing boats Ethel and Mother's Joy were in distress ofi Seaham, and a few minutes later the Motor Life-boat Elliot Galer put out.
A whole...
Hyskeir II
Way, Inner Hebrides.—At 10.35 on the night of the 23rd of July, 1949, the Southend coastguard reported a tele- phone message from the Isle of Gigha that the motor yacht Hyskeir II, of Greenock, was aground on a reef to the north of...
Joles
LEAKING PETROL TANK At 9.57 p.m. on 27th June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat in Seaford Bay was flashing SOS. The tide had been rising for three hours; there was a slight sea with a gentle westerly breeze...
May
ESCORT FOR FISHING VESSEL IN TOW Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 5.33 on the afternoon of the 5th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel had been seen firing red flares near Arranman's Barrels buoy...
Angela
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—At 9.17 on the morning of the 3rd of June, 1951, the Castletown coastguard tele- phoned that a boat was in difficulties off Langness. Fifteen minutes later the life-boat K.T.J.S., on temporary duty at the station,...
Lady Avalon
Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork - At 6.45 p.m. on 6th July, 1969, a member of the public told the coxswain that a small boat was drifting off Barry's point. Later the honorary secretary, who had asked for confirmation of the distress, saw the...
(Left) Lerwick's Arun Class
These dramatic photographs capture an incident on Friday 13 January 1989 when the fishing vessel Boy Andrew ran into a narrow gulley at Trebister Ness on Westray in the Shetlands. Lerwick's Arun Soldian took the crew off by Y boat and... - View image in PDF
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An Aeroplane (14)
FEBRUARY 27TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
At 3.40 P.M. an aeroplane crashed in the sea about two miles N.E. of the life-boat station, and life-boatmen standing by at the boathouse saw part of it above water. Sevenminutes later the...
Robert and Jane
DECEMBER 2lST. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.
The fishing coble Robert and Jane, of Newbiggin, with a crew of three, was the only coble to put out on this day, and as the sea rose, with a strong south-south-east wind, anxiety...