LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Golden Lily, of Swansea
APRIL 14TH. - GALWAY BAY. At 12.50 in the morning word was brought to the lifeboat coxswain that a vessel was in distress.
A south-east gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. At 1.15 the motor life-boat K.E.C.F. was launched...
Phoenix 121
AUGUST 31ST. - DUNGENESS, KENT. At 5.55 in the evening the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that the naval and military authorities requested the services of the lifeboat to take out a relief crew and provisions to one of the caissons of...
Fatal Accident In Boarding Boat
Second Mechanic F. K. Neilson of New Brighton, lost his life on the 6th March, 1962, when he fell overboard from the New Brighton boarding boat.
The honorary secretary of the New Brighton station had issued instructions...
Category: Obituaries
Life-Boat Exhibition In Manchester and Salford
THE life-boat exhibition which was given in London at the Charing Cross Underground Station in May and June of last year,1 was given this year for a fortnight in Manchester and a week in Salford.
The Manchester exhibition...
Category: Articles
St. Joseph (1)
Stornoway and Barra Island, Hebrides.— On the night of the 17th-18th October the Norwegian steamer St. Joseph, of Tonsberg, ran aground on the Grey Rocks, in the Sound of Mull. A whole N.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and snow...
Award to Thirteen-Year-Old Boy
ABOUT 5.30 on the afternoon of the 18th July, 1961, a girl who was swim- ming was seen to be in difficulties near the slipway which is used for launching the Appledore boarding boat. There was a slight, variable breeze and a calm sea. It was...
Category: Awards
Holland I
Dutch dredger THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Troon lifeboat station was told by Clyde Coastguard at 1345 on Friday September 12, 1980, that the Dutch dredger Holland I working off Irvine Harbour was breaking her moorings in severe weather...
Midnight
ELEVEN SAVED FROM STRANDED LAUNCH Margate, Kent. At 10.40 on the evening of Sunday the 25th of August, 1963, the coastguard reported he had seen three red rockets north-west of Margate.
This was confirmed by the Reculver...
D Class In Search for Cliff Fall Victim
D class in search for cliff fall Victim Borth-West Division Borth 's Dclass inflatable is pictured under the cliffs about half a mile from the station on 10 June 1989, co-ordinating the helicopter evacuation of a young girl who had... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Motor Boat
No survivors from capsized motor boatThe capsize of a Coastguard rigid inflatable boat added a further twist to a service by Salcombe lifeboat when she was searching in heavy seas and an onshore Force 7 wind on 28 May 1995.