LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Impulsion
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
Doris
.— On the 19th July at about 1.30 P.M. a small yacht was seen ashore on the N.E. Buxey Sand, but as she was in no danger no assistance was sent. Later in the afternoon, however, the wind got more into the east and increased to a strong...
A British Airways Helicopter
Ditched helicopter WHEN ON THURSDAY July 31, 1980, Aberdeen Coastguard heard at 1213 that a British Airways helicopter returning from an oil rig in the Clyde Field with 15 people on board had ditched in the sea a 'mayday' relay was...
None (2)
SICK BOY TAKEN OFF ISLAND Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 9.45 on the evening of the 20th April, 1963, the life-boat motor mechanic informed the coastguard that he could see a fire on Copeland Island, where he knew about eight people were spending...
None (2)
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 1st of December, 1954, the Commissioners of Irish Lights telephoned that a workman, who had been weather-bound in the Skelligs Rock lighthouse for a fort- night, had been taken ill and...
A Rubber Dinghy (4)
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 6.15 in the evening of the llth of August, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a rubber dinghy was drifting out to sea, and at half past six the life-boat Jane Holland, on temporary duty at the station, was...
Fishing Boats
TEIGNMOUTH.—On the 14th October, at about 4.45 P.M., three fishing-boatswere seen to be making "_for the harbour.
A strong S.W. wind was blowing at the time, and a heavy sea was breaking on the bar, and as the water...
Four Vellums Awarded to Crew Members
AT 1.25 on the afternoon of the 15th August, 1961, the Cromer coastguard received a message from the coastguard look-out at Cley that a motor yacht was burning a smoke distress flare some four to five miles north-east-by- east of the...
Category: Services
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
Suzon
— On the morning of the 8th April the steamer Suzon, of Antwerp, ran ashore at Breaksea Point. She was bound from France to Newport with a cargo of pitwood and carried a crew of twenty- four. She was seen by the watchman at Breaksea, and the...