LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bravest Act of Life-Saving
THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life- boat crew in 1960 has been won by Coxswain Patrick Power of Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, for the rescue of the only man on board a disabled barge on the 4th of...
Category: Awards
Busiest Day In the History of the Life-Boat Service
BETWEEN the late evening of Saturday, the 28th of July, and Sunday, the 29th of July, the Life-boat Service ex- perienced the busiest day in its entire history.
During most of the month of July the weather had been bad and...
Category: Services
Sailing Bye
Anchor dragged THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Tenby lifeboat station was informed by HM Coastguard at 0445 on Sunday September 25, 1983, that the yacht Sailing Bye had dragged her anchor and was aground on the north beach, Tenby. Maroons were...
Moonbeam
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—On the 15th September a party of three men and two women left Fleetwood in the motor yacht Moonbeam, of Fleetwood. Engine trouble developed, and the Moonbeam ran ashore on the North Lighthouse bank at the entrance to...
Spray
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 12.58 on the afternoon of the 23rd of June, 1951, the coastguard telephoned. The S.S. Leo had wirelessed that she had seen a small sailing yacht near No.
6 Barrow Buoy which seemed to need help. So...
Sunshine
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 12.45 P.M. on the 19th August, 1938, the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station that a sailing yacht was anchored three miles south of the look-out in a dangerous position. A strong and increasing S.S....
Colin Archer
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 8.37 on the evening of the 29th of July, 1956, the Foreland coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht had broken adrift from her tow off Sandown and ap- peared to be in difficulties. The life- boat Jesse Lumb was...
Janice
Swanage, Dorset.—At 12.52 on the afternoon of the 25th of April, 1957, the St. Albans Head coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht with her sails blown away was drifting six and a half miles south-by-east of Durlston Head.
The...
Nora
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 2.51 on the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1957.
the watchman on the east pier reported that a yacht about two miles from the Quern buoy was signalling for help. She could apparently make no...
Ystwyth
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—At 6.20 on the evening of the 22nd of Septem- ber. 1957, the coastguard passed on a report from the police that two people on board a yacht were in difficulties off the pier and were baling and signal- ling. The...