LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Oneida
On the 24th April signals of distress were shown by the yawl Oneida, of Sennen Cove, which had left Padstow in the morning intending to pick up her nets which she had left in the bay on the previous evening. When she started, the wind was...
The Life-Saving Stations of the World
IT is hoped to publish in the next issue of The Li/eboat an article on a " List of Life-saving Stations of the World, with their Equipment and Geographical Positions," issued by the International Hydrographic Bureau at Monaco, in...
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Arragonite
At 12.20 A.M. on 3rd February, during a very thick fog, word was received that a vessel was making signals of distress, and the Motor Life-boat H. C. J. was launched. The Hull trawler Arragonite, with a crew of fifteen on board, was found on...
Restless
Peel, Isle of Man.—About 4.30 in the afternoon of the 30th of July, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a small yacht was in difficulties off Peel, and the life-boat Helen Sutton was launched at 5.15. A strong, squally south-west wind was...
Mary Gowans and Trustful III
Aberdeen.—At 4.53 on the afternoon of the 9th of February, 1953, the Gregness coastguard reported that two fishing vessels were making for Aberdeen, as it was too dangerous to enter Stonehaven Harbour. The No.
1 life-boat...
A Dinghy (3)
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—On the morn- ing of the 10th of June, 1957, a message was received from a man living in Penmon that his twelve-year-old sonwas drifting in a dinghy out towards Penmon Point. At 12.30 the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs....
A Converted Ship's Boat
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.10 on the morning of the 14th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a converted ship's boat had been aground all night alongside Barrow Deep lightvessel. Her crew had no petrol for...
Earn of Fraserburgh
ESCORT FOR FISHING VESSEL IN TOW Arbroath, Angus. At 8.53 on the evening of the 28th April, 1962, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that a fishing vessel was firing distress rockets two miles off Auchmithie.
Within...
Seafarer
On the 7th April four men and a woman put out for a trial run in a motor boat, the Seafarer. When about a mile offshore, in Weymouth bay, they ran out of petrol and their boat began to drift out to sea. One of the men swam ashore and gave...
425 people saved
Mother Nature threw a lot at our lifesavers in 2013: it was the coldest Spring since 1962, the hottest Summer for 7 years and the windiest December since 1993. But they rescued thousands and saved 425 lives.
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