LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sophie, of Oporto, Georgina
On the 4th January, 1857, the brig Sophie, of Oporto, was driven on shore in a heavy easterly gale between three and four miles south of Hauxley Point, on the Northumberland coast. The Hauxley life-boat belonging to the NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT...
Red House Lugger (1)
Two lifeboats save six from yacht in storm conditions Aldeburgh and Lowestoft lifeboats were both involved in a long, arduous service in Storm Force winds and extremely heavy seas when they rescued six people from a yacht in the North Sea at...
Carriad
Night escort ANGLE LIFEBOAT, THE 46ft 9in WATSON CLASS, Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds, launched on service at2148 on the evening of Saturday May 17, 1986, after a yacht had been reported to be suffering engine problems in gale...
Lives Lost In 1854
The whole loss of lives during the year, as far as has been ascertained, amounts to 1,549.
Of these, 13 were lost in the Embla, wrecked near Blyth in a snow-storrn, on the 7th of January; 290 in the Tayleur, wrecked at...
Category: Articles
Service In Appalling Conditions
AT 12.55 on the afternoon of the 8th of January, 1956, the Spurn Point coast- guard rang up the Humber life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Stevonia, of Goole, had wirelessed that her cargo had shifted and that she had a heavy list...
Category: Services
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Selsey, Sussex. At 4.35 on the after- noon of the 20th of July, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that three bathers were in diffi- culties off Selsey Bill point. At 4.40 the life-boat Canadian Pacific put out in a...
Lily of Devon
The Lowestoft Life-boat.
The Lowestoft Motor Life-boat, a few miles to the south of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, would have been launched to the help of the Georgia instead of the Southwold boat, but on the afternoon...
Ceremonies
Berwick - Mersey class Joy and Charles Beeby Berwick might be in England - just - but when the day dawned for the town's new Mersey class lifeboat to be named, on 23 March 1993, it was as braw a morning as any in Scotland. The...
Category: Inaugurations
Two Rubber Dinghies (1)
SEPTEMBER 27TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 4.30 in the afternoon the Colwyn Bay police reported two men drifting out to sea on rubber dinghies. A southerly breeze was blowing, and the sea was choppy. The motor...
Lilida (1)
Swanage, and Weymouth, Dorsetshire.-— About nine o'clock on the night of the 4th of September, 1949, the Swanage coastguard telephoned the life-boat station that red flares had been seen five miles south-east of Shambles. At 9.34 he...