LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Boat
Appledore, Devon. At 4.18 on the afternoon of the 19th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the second coxswain that two boys were on a sandbank on the river Taw after being cut off by the tide. The life-boat Violet Armstrong left her moorings...
Eily
— About 7 P.M. on the evening of the llth January a signal of distress was seen from a vessel at anchor in Caldy Road.
There was a moderate to strong south westerly gale at the time accompanied by a heavy ground sea and the...
Heemskirk
APRIL 15TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. Just after midnight on the 14th April the coastguard reported a vessel to the N.E. by E. of Britannia Pier, which was not showing distress signals but which appeared to be ashore on Scroby...
Pilot Cutter No. 3
Blyth, Northumberland. — At^ 1.48 A.M. on the 22nd December, 1937, the coastguard telephoned that Pilot Cutter No. 3 was ashore in Blyth Bay, and that a tug had gone out to her. Owing to poor visibility, he could not see where she was. A...
Yarinya and Auxiliary Cutter Cossar
Poole, Dorset. At 7.42 on the evening of the 27th of September, 1958, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the yacht Yarinya was aground on a bank in South Deep in Poole harbour and was making water. At eight o'clock the life-boat...
Battling in a boiling torrent
Experience and compassion combined when three volunteers faced the toughest test
The call came at 8.19am on Easter Sunday 2012. All that Damien Bolton, Nicola Bradbury and Matthew Main knew was...
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Two Fishing Boats
JAN. 25TH. - WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.
During the afternoon two local fishing boats were caught at sea by a strong easterly breeze, with a rough sea. They were seen making for harbour and the motor life-boat City of Edinburgh...
Confederate
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—The Aberdeen trawler Confederate stranded on the Scaurs of Cruden, about nine miles south of Peterhead on the morning of the 16th January. On receipt of the news from the coastguard, the motor life-boat Duke of...
A Sailboard (1)
Marooned on dolphin THE DLA of Morecambe lifeboat station was informed by Liverpool Coastguard at 1625 on Sunday October 17, 1982, that a board sailor was in difficulties in Half Moon Bay, near Heysham. Maroons were fired at 1628 and at 1635...
Channel Islands By Joan Davies
Channel Islands OUR MOST SOUTHERLY LIFEBOAT STATIONS by Joan Davies SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL Sailing waters in the world; a cruising man's dream in themselves and the gateway to Brittany. Such are the seas which surround Alderney,...
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