LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Amy
In response to signals of distress at 8.30 P.M. on the 18th January, the Life-boat Francis Forbes Barton was launched. There was a whole W.N.W. gale at the time, and the sea was very heavy. Having proceeded in the direction of the signals,...
A Sailing Dinghy
Swamped A 15FT SAILING DINGHY with three people on board had set off for a day's fishing off Flamborough Head on the morning of Sunday September 21,1986. On their return the dinghy capsized just off Smethwick Sands. The crew succeeded in...
Helpers at Dungeness Moving Skids In Position In Preparation for Hauling Up the Life-Boat to Its New Boat House Built on a Shingle Mound
Helpers at Dungeness moving skids in position in preparation for hauling up the life-boat to its new boat house built on a shingle mound.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Torbay
TORBAY, Tuesday June 16, 1987: Brixham Coastguard alerted the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station at 1515 that a small speedboat had run aground off Thatcher Rock and that one of its four occupants had injured her ankle jumping... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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MEN DIVED FOR BOY AT about 7.30 p.m. on 14th March, 1971, Mr.
John Hodder, a member of the Lyme Regis, Dorset, ILB crew, was working on the Cobb when he heard cries for help. As the ILB was off service for the winter months...
A Difficult Tow In a South-East Gale
ON the 20th of January, 1954, the fishing yawl Poseidon, of Rothesay, left North Shields to fish off Eyemouth.
Early on the morning of the 22nd of January the crew of four found they could not start the engines. They were...
Category: Services
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Hazardous rescue on single engineThe RNLI's chief of operations has written to the Newhaven lifeboat station congratulating Second Coxswain Paddy Boyle for his skilful boathandling when he rescued a person from the water on 29 October...
Cornhill
On the night of the 15th January, three vessels which were at anchor in Dungarvan Pool were driven on the rocky shore at Ballin- acourty, the wind blowing a whole gale from the S. at the time. Two of them got so close to the shore that they...
Isis (1)
OAIBTEB AND WIHTEBTON NORFOLK,— The Oaister No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden put off on the 19th September and remained by the stranded steamer Jsis, of Newcastle, as the vessel had a large number of men on board who were discharging the cargo....
Magdapur
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—While bound for Newcastle the oil tanker Magdapur, of Liverpool, a vessel of 8,640 tons, carrying a crew of eighty, was sunk by enemy action off Aldeburgh on 10thSeptember, 1939. Information reached the life-boat station...