LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
LIFEBOAT STAYS WITH CASUALTY FOR MORE THAN EIGHT HOURS Help for disabled MFV in severe gale force winds Whitby's relief Tyne class lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher was on service for some 12 hours on 3 April 1990 when three fishing vessels...
Category: Services
Amber Queen
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 7th of December, 1954, the Wick coastguard telephoned that the motor iishing vessel Amber Queen, which had a crew of five, had wirelessed that she had broken down and needed help...
Light-Vessel No. 85
JANUARY 12TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At about 4.30 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that Light-vessel No. 85 was being attacked by enemy aeroplanes. The No. 1 Cromer motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 4.50 P.M...
Shielia
JULY 9TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 8.35 in the morning the Arklow smack St. Gerrade put into Rosslare Harbour and reported that a yacht was sinking on the North Dogger Bank, Wexford Bar. The skipper had tried, but without success,...
Providence
NORTH BERWICK, HADDINGTONSHIRE.
—A telegram from Anstruther was sent to the Coxswain of the Life-boat at North Berwick stating that a fishingboatfishingboat was in great danger off that place, and that the Life-boat...
Past and Present
From THE LIFEBOAT of March 1963 The disaster at Seaham Harbour in which 5 members of the life-boat crew and 4 people who had been taken off a fishing boat by the life-boat all lost their lives, shocked and distressed the nation.
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Category: Articles
Eclipse
FBASEBBUKGH.—At 8.30 A.M. on the 25th of October the schooner Eclipse, of Dundee, bound from Suaderland to Little Ferry with coal, showed signals of distress while riding in the bay. The Cosmo and Charles Life-boat proceeded to her...
Lady Ann
On the night of the 23rd August the steamer Lady Ann, of Sunderland, whilst bound from that port to London with a cargo of coal, stranded on the Shipwash Sands.
At about 7.30 next morning the Coast- guard reported the...
Feature: Going for Gold
Not only is The Lifeboat College a centre of excellence for lifeboat crews and staff - it provides a base for other organisations to learn about the RNLI's work. Regional Education Officer Dave Cooling looks back on a lively week when 14...
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A Hunter Aircraft (5)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 5.48 on the 7th of November, 1957, the coast- guard reported that a Hunter aircraft had crashed into the sea and that the pilot had baled out ten miles north of Lundy. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at...