LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lord Keith
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 4.25 A.M. on the 8th February, 1938, the coastguard reported that a vessel had gone ashore about a mile north of Benacre look-out.
A S. by E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea, the night was...
Lowering Ships' Boats at Sea
ON a former occasion we brought to the notice of our readers Mr. LACON'S improved plan for lowering boats, intended to prevent the recurrence of such lamentable accidents and fearful loss of life as had then recently taken place in the...
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'We waited and hoped'
On the evening of 1 April, Skerries lifeboat crew members were requested to search for two missing fishermen from the Co Dublin town
Along with RNLI lifeboat crews from Clogher Head and Howth,...
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Dover, Kent. At 7.17 on the evening of the 27th of October, 1960, the eastern arm signal station informed the honorary secretary that a man on a bicycle had gone over the wall into the eastern dock. When the life-boat Southern Africa put out...
Welsh Lady II and Sara Terrapin
SPEEDBOAT CAPSIZED At 2.45 p.m. on 6th June, 1964, the lifeboat's mechanic informed the honorary secretary that a vessel, whose position was one mile offshore from the station, had fired two smoke flares. The vessel Welsh Lady II had a...
Junella
Twenty-nine rescued JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT on Monday September 29, 1980, the deputy launching authority of Stornoway lifeboat station was informed by HM Coastguard that the 1,615 gross ton motor fishing vessel Junella was aground off Eilean...
Stepney
At 8 A.M. on the 16th February the coastguard telephoned to the coxswain that a vessel was ashore about one mile south of Palling coastguard station.
The tide was then half flood, and there was a slight swell. A moderate...
Couthie
Margate, Kent - At 10.50 p.m. on 28th July, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Couthie, with a crew of two on board, had gone ashore at Gresham bay, Birchington. The coastguards were standing by on shore and...
Heroic Women of Boulmer
ON the morning of 24th March, a very cold morning, with a heavy sea running, the Boulmer Life-boat was launched to stand by seven returning fishing boats of Craster, which, owing to the heavy seas breaking right across the Bar, would find it...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 12.23 on the afternoon of the 26th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that a man had fallen over the cliff between Manobier camp and Lydstep and that the police had asked for the help of...