LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
San Casto
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—At ap- proximately 5.30 on the afternoon of the 4th of May, 1956, the coastguard reported that a member of the crew of the tanker San Casto, of London, had been injured. At 6.10 the life- boat Jeanie Speirs put out...
Henny
At 2.35 P.M.
on the 3rd March, a vessel was observed by the Coxswain standing into danger near the Scroby Sands. He therefore assembled his crew and launched the Life-boat John Burch and proceeded to her. She proved to be...
Life-Boat Crews. No. III
A CONSIDERABLE number of the Life-boats of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION are manned by "boatmen," a term comprising men who employ several different means of obtaining their living in boats, but chiefly applied to...
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A Dredger
Hastings, Sussex - At 11.27 a.m. on 10th May, 1968, the foreman in charge of a dredger off St. Leonards informed the honorary secretary that the three men aboard were in danger and requested the assistance of the life-boat to take them...
All hands!
Thousands of volunteers and hundreds of staff are needed to provide back-up to the RNLI’s lifesavers – so how does the charity find the right people for the job?
‘The Institution is very anxious to form or develop Branches...
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Latifa
Hurricane tow AT ABOUT 1515 on Thursday, October 14, 1976, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Weymouth lifeboat station that the 52-ton yacht Latifa had requested assistance off Portland Bill. She had damaged sails, a shattered...
Doddington, of Dumfries
On the 4th March, the schooner Doddtngtan, of Dumfries, was obliged, in consequence of the severity of the weather, to ran for Ayr Harbour, when she struck on the Nicholas Bock, This rock is about four hundred yards from the south pier, and...
An Outboard Motor Boat
Port Erin, Isle of Man.—-At 2.40 in the afternoon, on the 16th of September, 1950, the coxswain reported that two hours earlier two men had set out in an outboard motor boat to rescue a dog trapped on the cliffs north of Fleshwick beach....
Landing Craft 2429
SEPTEMBER 15TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. At. 7.30 in the afternoon the Castletown coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in difficulties in Castletown Bay.
A S.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy...
Three Vessels
On the 4th April, however, it was any- thing but fine weather, and the night was dark and tempestuous. Nevertheless, the ! Hope eventually succeeded in saving the crews of the three vessels and entered I Bideford Harbour in safety, with ...