LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Dinghy From Wishbone
On the afternoon of the 20th July the motor life-boat Hearts of Oak, when off Sconce Point on her return to Yarmouth from exercise off Milford, saw a motor dinghy from the yacht Wishbone drift- ing rapidly towards Shingle...
Coxswain Dan O'Dwyer from Courtmacsherry
Coxswain Dan O'Dwyer from Courtmacsherry receive their Bronze medals from HRH The Duke of Kent. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Deja vu
In a candid letter, sailor and RNLI supporter John Sinclair explains why he had to be rescued twice in the early hours of 22 March
'I anchored my 6m yacht Blue Dragon in Moelfre Bay...
Category: Articles
E. J. D., of Nantes
Four days afterwards the boat again did good service. The brig. E. J. D. of Nantes, was driven by the tempestuous weather on a lee shore, and was at length forced to run for Scarborough Harbour.
In making the attempt,...
Jonah
WEXFORD.—Signals of distress were observed at midnight on the 8th May, from a vessel which had stranded on the Dogger Bank. The wind was blowing from the E.N.E. at the time, and the sea was rough. The Ethel JEveleen Life-boat promptly...
Fishing Boats
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the 8th Jannary, about 2.15 P.M., the Albert Victor Life-boat was launched to render assistance to several distressed fishing-boats.
The boats went over the bar four times, and accompanied the boats in,...
Two Pilot Boats
— Just before nightfall on 9th April two pilot boats had been seen pulling out to sea in a moderate S.W. gale with a rough sea and heavy rain. After dark the wind increased and anxiety was felt for their safety, so it was decided to launch...
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Walton and Frinton, Essex; Margate, Ramsgate, and Walmer, Kent.— 27th October, 1937. During naval exercises fireworks were used by the Fleet without notice being given. They were taken for distress signals and these four motor life-boats...
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Walton and Frinton, Essex; Margate, Ramsgate, and Walmer, Kent.— 27th October, 1937. During naval exercises fireworks were used by the Fleet without notice being given. They were taken for distress signals and these four motor life-boats...
Jaymac
Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.7 on the morning of the 7th of June, 1951, the Lade coastguard reported the motor yacht Jaymac, of London, in need of help six miles south-west of Dunge- ness. At 9.45 the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched...