LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kite-surfers
Kite-surfers hit by sudden squall Members of the Littlehampton inshore lifeboat crew were called into action in September 2003 when a group of kitesurfers were suddenly swept across the beach and out to sea by strong offshore windsThe alarm...
Chipperkyle
On the 24th April an intimation by telephone was received that a large vessel was aground on the North Leman Sand.
The No. 2 Life - boat Margaret was launched, and after sailing about seventeen miles, fell in with the...
Glencloy
Stornoway, Hebrides. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 23rd of November, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Glencloy of Glasgow, bound for Stornoway, needed help as she had engine trouble. Her position...
Arvidsjauer, of Stockholm
Penlee, Cornwall - At 8 p.m. on 6th March, 1967, the honorary secretary informed the coxswain that the life-boat would be needed at 6 a.m. the following morning to take a doctor out to the m.v.
Arvidsjauer of Stockholm...
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APRIL. 15TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. At midnight on the 14th April, the Donaghadee coastguard asked the life-boat to stand by at the harbour ready to take on board an armed guard. A west wind was blowing, with squalls, and...
Life-Lines
BONNIE little Life-boat! Going out to seat What a splendid picture, Wherever she may be! Valiant little Life-boat! We know the signal well; Of vessels in distress, As rings the Life-boat bell.
Useful little Life-boat I...
Category: Poetry
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On the night of the 29th August the Berry Head coastguard was informed by a boy that three people were marooned on Cradle Rock, St. Mary's Bay. Dark- ness was setting in, and as no boat could be seen, the life-boat station was informed....
Twenty Best Branches: A Correction
In the last issue of The Lifeboat, in the article on the twenty Branches with the highest collections in the year 1929- 30, Clacton-on-Sea was given, as having been sixteenth in the previous year, but as having fallen out of the first...
Category: Branches
Small Fishing Boats
Whilst the small fishing-boats were returning from the fishing-grounds on the 9th January, the sea became so heavy at the mouth of the harbour that the Life-boat TheopMlm Sidney Eclialaz was launched to stand by and assist the boats. The sea...
Ben Strome
At about 8.30 P.M. on the 5th January the coastguard telephoned that a vessel seaward of Buchan Ness lighthouse was showing distress signals. The life-boat coxswain was ill, and the motor life-boat Duke of Connaught was launched at 8.40...