LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
PLAYING SAFE
Every year our lifeboat crews and lifeguards rescue hundreds of children. But it’s much more fun helping them stay out of trouble in the first place
Walter Lee is a volunteer education presenter in Glasgow. ‘Some of the...
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An Aeroplane's Dinghy (2)
JULY 27TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. The crew of an aeroplane were adrift in their dinghy, but they were picked up by a trawler. - Rewards, £14 19s. 6d..
Provident friends
PENLEE | 29 JUNE
Penlee’s crew were in the throes of their Sunday morning training session when they received the call for help.
Provident, a 1920s former Brixham trawler with 13 people onboard, had...
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Sea Fox (4)
Search success AT 1820 ON FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1987, Tyne Tees Coastguards were alerted by the mother of one of two men aboard the Hartlepool-based fishing boat Sea Fox that the vessel was six hours overdue at the east coast...
A Ship’s Life-Boat
DECEMBER 30TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. The sound of a horn and shouts for help were heard at eight in the evening, and the life-boat put out at once. She saw a ship’s life-boat with seven men on board, but before she...
Shamrock Cruiser II
Ramsgate., Kent.—At 5.15 on the evening of the 15th of June, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a motor cruiser, flying a distress signal, seemed to be drifting. At 5.22 the life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, left her...
Elly Gerda
Trawler listing THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Plymouth lifeboat station was advised by HM Coastguard at 1030 on Wednesday February 15 that the fishing vessel Elly Gerda, ten miles south west of Rame Head, had taken water indeteriorating...
Martje
Hartlepool, Durham; and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—About eight o'clock on the evening of the 8th of December, 1954, the Hartlepool coastguard learnt that the motor vessel Martje, of Groningen, was sending distress signals fifty miles...
Martje (1)
Hartlepool, Durham; and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—About eight o'clock on the evening of the 8th of December, 1954, the Hartlepool coastguard learnt that the motor vessel Martje, of Groningen, was sending distress signals fifty miles...
Anne
Coaster aground LATE ON THE NIGHT OF Saturday November 9, 1985, the Dutch coaster, Anne, radioed that she was dragging her anchor and getting close to Long Scar rocks near Hartlepool. There was a north-north-easterly strong gale force 9,...