LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Europa
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 5.40 on the morning of the 9th of August, 1957, the coastguard tele- phoned that a fishing vessel was ashorein Beadnell Bay. The life-boat crew assembed, but a message was then received that the crew of...
A Ketch
Salcomhe, Devon. — 27th October, 1937. A ketch was making water rapidly, but was towed in by a tug.— Rewards, £15 18s..
Magdalina
LOSSIKMOUTH, SCOTLAND.—The schooner Magdalina, of Inverness, bound from Sunderland to Dingwall with coal, was struck by a sudden squall off Burgh Head on the 25th October. Her sails were carried away, and she came into Lossiemouth bay and...
The S.S. Whinstone, of Preston
ON 25th November, just before eight o'clock in the morning, the Donna Nook Life-boat went out in answer to signals of distress. The conditions could not i She found the Whinstone at anchor, after have been worse. A whole gale was I...
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X boat used stranded on in rescue of youths rockLifeboat services are not always in heavy weather and not always to professional or amateur mariners, as a service by Douglas's Tyne this summer illustrated.
On a fine but...
Grand Celebration
In October 1989 the Lytham St Annes Ladies' Lifeboat Luncheon Club celebrated its 25th anniversary, and at a party held to celebrate this, and the director's, 25 years with the RNLI, Lt Cdr Brian Miles was asked to help cut the... - View image in PDF
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Triton
SEAMAN'S INJURIES St. Ives, Cornwall. At 12.20 a.m. on 2nd April, 1964, the honorary secretary was told by the radio medico service that the Belgian trawler Triton of Zeebrugge was proceeding towards St. Ives Bay with a badly injured...
Glynwood
-Prior to the service rendered by the Rhoscolyn Life-boat, Mr. WILLIAMS had been engaged for many hours at Holyhead with the life-saving apparatus, other vessels being in imminent danger there. At 3.45 A.M. the Life-boat Thomas Fielden was...
Ocean Pride
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire.—While the motor life-boat George and Sarah Strachan was at sea on the afternoon of the 16th of July, 1938, for her monthly exercise, she received a signal from the coastguard that a yacht was in a dangerous position...
Minx
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 6.50 on the evening of the 25th of Septem- ber, 1953, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that he had seen a yacht on the Burbo Bank. Later she was reported to be high and dry. At 9.15 the life-boat Norman B....