LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Feature: Launching Saves Lives
The pages of the Lifeboat feature many brave and skilful rescues but it is easy to overlook that, before a lifeboat reaches a casualty, just launching can be a demanding task If all lifeboat stations were based in easily accessible harbours...
Category: Articles
Theodora
At 7.30 A.M.
on the 19th March, during a N.E. gale, the Coastguard reported that a schooner was flying signals of distress. The Life-boat Queen Victoria was launched, but considerable difficulty was ex- perienced, and she...
Letters
Immediate thanks On Wednesday December 10, 1980, our diving boat Kermit, named after a famous frog, decided to roll over on her back in an attempt to swim like her namesake. She found, however, that although in this position floating was...
Category: Correspondence
Spreety (1)
Lifeboat and ILB AT 0813 ON WEDNESDAY August 17, 1977, HM Coastguard Aldeburgh requested the launch of Aldeburgh lifeboat to a yacht firing red flares about half a mile east of the lookout. Because of the difficulties of launching at low...
Vitesse
New Brighton, Cheshire. — At 1.55 early on the morning of the 18th of October, 1953, the Formby coastguard reported that the motor vessel Vitesse, of Delfzijl, Netherlands, had gone aground on the revetment near C.25 Black Buoy in the River...
Bass, Alto and Vivendi
Yachts in distress THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of The Lizard-Cadgwith lifeboat station was telephoned on the evening of Monday September 3, 1984, to be told by Falmouth coastguard that a red flare had been sighted off Poldhu Cove. The...
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Category: Advertisement
March (1)
CARRADALE, ARGYLLSHIRE. At eleven in the morning of the 9th of December, 1943, the two motor fishing boats Betty and Irene, which work together, were at anchor in Carradale Bay, when their crews saw an aeroplane come down on the sea. A...
Category: Services
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
REDCAR AND MIDDLESBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
—The Redcar life-boat men having refused to work their boat, as they considered it was not large enough, a larger and more roomy life-boat has been supplied to them in its place. It is...
Category: Articles
New Scarborough Life-Boat Named
THE first life-boat of the Oakley class was named J. G. Graves of Sheffield at a ceremony at the Scarborough lifeboathouse on the 11th of June, 1959.
The life-boat was a gift of the J. G. Graves Charitable Trust, and Mrs....
Category: Inaugurations