LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Geordie
Newhaven, Sussex. At 9.12 on the evening of the 17th of April, I960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht needed help off the west pier. At 9.30 the life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at low water in a light...
The S.S. Harley
FEBRUARY 5TH. - CROMARTY. At 6.25 A.M. the Burghead coastguard reported distress signals from a vessel aground one mile west of Findhorn, and the motor life-boat James Macfee was launched at 6.45 A.M. A moderate S.W. wind was blowing, with a...
Children Rescued from Cabin Cruiser
ON the afternoon of 16th September, 1962, Mr. Kenneth Johnson and his brother, Mr. Frank Johnson, with six of their children aged between two and twelve, went on board Mr. Kenneth Johnson's cabin cruiser, which was one of the Dolphin...
Category: Services
Frisky,
Salcombe, Devon. At 5.45 on the evening of the 3rd July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a party of women were stranded near the Pig's Nose. They had landed by dinghy from their motor boat Frisky, which had...
A Motor Barge
Bembridge, Isle of Wight 10th February. A motor barge had been flying a signal, but did not want any help.—Rewards, £18 Us. Qd..
Pooch in a pouch
4 September 2012: An unfortunate dog, which had fallen to the bottom of cliffs at Salton Bay, was rescued by St Bees inshore lifeboat. Crew Member Dale Rockery swam ashore to retrieve the frightened pet from a...
Category: Articles
£25,000 -
Organisers and VIPs celebrate the third successful 'On the crest of a wave1 concert held at Ennts.
Co. Clare on 16 April 2001. Internationally acclaimed musician Phil Coulter (fourth leftl again topped the Dill helping... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ebor Abbey
Early on the morning of the 27th September the Belhelvie coastguards reported that a vessel ashore one mile north of the watch-house was making distress signals. A moderate S.S.W.
breeze was blowing, with a very heavy sea....
Cistus
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 2.55 on the morning of the 2nd of June, 1956, the county police rang up to say that the yacht Cistus with a crew of four had struck an unlighted buoy in the Wyre Channel and had sunk. The life-boat Edmund and Mary...
Starting All Over
Anyone who has seen an Atlantic righted after a capsize - hopefully only as a demonstration during Open Days - and then seen the engines restart 'on the button' cannot help but be impressed.
Such reliability does...
Category: Articles