LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mtoto
Three rescued in high winds... and mud When Whitstable's Atlantic was called out to rescue two adults and an eightyear- old from a 24ft yacht the crew found themselves dealing not only with breaking seas and Force 6-7 winds but also...
Birgitz and Riki Pia
Lifeboat aids disabled yacht and sinking trawler in southerly galeA service which started as a short call to search for an overdue sailing dinghy, and which was cancelled almost immediately when the dinghy was located, eventually turned into...
St. Mary's, Woolwich. Presentation of Life-Boat Institution Award
eAN interesting ceremony took place on Wednesday, October 16th, in St. Mary's Girls' School, Woolwich, the occasion being the award of the Challenge Shield for London in connection with the recent essay competition on the "...
Category: Awards
Albion, of Rostock
'Again, o>n the 19th November, this valu- able Life-boat did good service when she was launched during a gale from S.S.W., to the barque Albion, of Eostock, which had gone ashore at Kirkton Head, and was happily the means of rescuing...
Silksworth
WINCHELSEA, SUSSEX.—On the 23rd January at 3.45 A.M. the Frances Harris Life-boat was launched in reply to signals of distress, and made for the place where the signals had been last seen, about four miles E. of the Life-boat Station, but...
Glenbervie
CAISTER.—On the morning of the 23rd February, 1896, the Cockle Light-vessel fired guns and rockets. The Life-boat Covent Garden was taken out of her house, and while she was being launched a coastguardman arrived and informed the coxswain...
Antres
ST. MARY'S SCILLY ISLANDS.—The coastguard men at St. Agnes having signalled for the Life-boat, the Henry Dundas put off at 6.50 P.M. on the 3rd of May in a very heavy sea and thick weather and proceeded to the Western Bocks, where the...
Friendship
The fishermen assembled on the piers about 3.30 A.M., on the 24th May, for the purpose of going off to their crab and lobster pots, but owing to the strong i sea only one coble, the Friendship, • ventured out. She left harbour...
John Rees
NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.—Shortly before noon on the 7th January the Coastguard reported that a ketch was in need of assistance off St. Agnes Head. The crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 5 were immediately summoned, and the boat proceeded with...
Sky Lark and Fisher Lassie
During the night of the 31st July the Coastguard at Knab saw flares being burnt by a vessel in the South entrance. She was evidently drifting seaward. The Life-boat Station was warned, and the Motor Life-boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland was...