LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
December
Launches 34. Lives rescued 34.
DECEMBER 1 ST. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
Shortly before mid-day the naval authorities telephoned that the ten-year-old daughter of the lightkeeper at South Lighthouse, Fair...
Category: Services
Rubber Mattresses
HELICOPTER FOR BOYS Hoylake, Cheshire. At 4.35 p.m.
on 28th May, 1964, the Formby coastguard informed the life-boat coxswain that two schoolboys had been seen on what was assumed to be a rubber dinghy, drifting out to sea a...
John Smart
NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SEA, NORTHUMBERLAND.
—The steam-trawler John Smart, of Shields, on her return journey from fishing, stranded in Cambois Bay in thick weather early on the morning of the 8th February. In response to her...
Lenu
At about noon on the 23rd November, during a moderate southerly gale, the Coxswain of the Life-boat Thomas McCunn received a telegram from the Light-keeper at Mull of Galloway, stating that a Russian barquentine was driving across Luce Bay...
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Flamborough, Yorkshire - At 3.58p.m. on 1st September, 1968, it was learnt that a boy had fallen over the cliff at Thornwick bay and that the assistance of the life-boat had been requested by the police. Twelve minutes later the life-boat...
Naming Ceremonies
As briefly reported in the July issue of THE LIFE-BOAT (page 154) a number of life-boat naming ceremonies have taken place.
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire: the 44-foot steel life-boat Arthur & Blanche Harris was named by...
Category: Inaugurations
Helen Mary
Appledore, and Clovelly, Devon.—-During the afternoon of the 7th August, 1937, signals were seen coming from a small motor yacht oft Westward Ho, A moderate N.N. W. breeze was blowing, with a smooth to moderate sea. The Appledore motor...
Cite d'Aleth (1)
Fishing vessel founders THE FRENCH FISHING VESSEL Cite d'Aleth, in distress, was reported to the honorary secretary of Rosslare Harbour lifeboat station by MRCC Shannon at 0634 on Wednesday January 12. At first it was reported that Cite...
Bookshelf
Lifeboat station histories On A Wave and A Prayer A History of the Youghal Lifeboat Station by Brendan O'Driscoll published by the author at CIR9.50 The port of Youghal (pronounced 'Yawl') on Ireland's beautiful southern...
Category: Articles
A Yacht Isidora
Shortly after midday on-the 10th. February a message was received, stating that a vessel was apparently on the North Buxey Sands, and the Life-boat Albert Edward was launched, but before she had proceeded far the vessel was forced by her...