LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
L.C.T.908
NOVEMBER 13TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
At 5.50 in the evening the coastguard reported a landing craft in need of help outside Wells harbour. A strong north-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea ; it was raining and visibility...
A Year of Peace
In the twelve months from the end of the war in Europe on May 8th.
1945, life-boats rescued 677 lives. That is an average of 5 lives a month and is only 50 lives less than were rescued during the last twelve months of the...
Category: Articles
Langness
NOVEMBER 10TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESS- SHIRE. A gale from the east had been blowing all through November 9th, and on the 10th it rose to hurricane force, with a very heavy sea running and the air thick with spindrift. Many ships had taken...
Services by Lifeboats
Services by the Life-boats of the Institution, by Shore-boats and by Auxiliary Rescue boats during 1945 During the year life-boats were launched 497 times. Of these launches 118 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by...
Category: Services
A Rowing Boat (2)
MAY 7TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. Two boys had taken a rowing boat from Babbacombe Beach, but the life-boat could not find them. The police discovered the wreckage of the boat, but as no one had been reported missing it was assumed that the boys...
Times of Liverpool
On the 26th August, during a strong westerly gale, information was received at this Life-boat station that a large vessel was ashore about four miles distant. The Life-boat Jessie Knowles was taken along the shore on her carriage until she...
Zephyr
CAHORE, Co. WEXFORD.—At about 11 o'clock on the morning of the 5th February, during a strong gale of wind from the S., 'and a heavy sea, signals of distress were shown by the Blackwater Lightship. The John Brooke Life^boat was...
Rosebud
ST. ANDREW'S.—At about 9 o'clock on the morning of the 2nd February, the schooner Eosebud, of Goole, was seen from St. Andrew's, but the weather becoming thick she was lost sight of. She 'was next observed at about 11...
Daisy
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—A signal of distress having been observed during a S.S.W. gale and a very heavy sea on the 4th January, the Douglas No, 2 Life-boat John Turner Turner was launched at 5 A.M., and found the schooner Daisy, of Chester,...
Jane Smith
ST. IVES, CORNWALL.—The schooner Jane Smith, of Plymouth, bound from Llanelly to Ipswich with coal, was observed running for St. Ives Harbour at about 8 A.M. on the 15th of September, during a strong gale from the N. and heavy sea, with a...