LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
J.A.P.
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 9.30 a.m. on 30th October, 1965, the coastguard reported that the trawler J.A.P. of Lowestoft was aground on the sandbank off the harbour entrance and had sent a distress signal. The drifter Wisemans had gone to her...
Palmyro
On the 30th December, at 6.30 P.M., signals of distress having been observed, the No. 1 Life-boat went to the Cross Sand, and found the barque. Palmyra, of South Shields, ashore there. Part of her crew had abandoned her in two boats, and the...
Union Crystal
Union Crystal sinks JUST BEFORE 1915 on Wednesday, November 16, 1977, the honorary secretaries of both Sennen Cove and St Ives lifeboat stations were informed by Lands End Coastguard that the 499-ton coaster Union Crystal was in trouble 12...
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SICK PEOPLE TAKEN FROM ISLAND IN GALE Galway Bay. At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 26th February, 1962, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary for the use of the life-boat to take two patients from Inishmaan Island to Rossaveel on the...
Amontillado
YACHT'S CREW RESCUED BY FISHING VESSEL North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 3.55 on the afternoon of the 14th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized about a mile and a...
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Stuck in mud A MAN stuck in the mud at the mouth of the River Taff was reported to Swansea Coastguard by Cardiff Police at 2322 on Sunday August 24, 1980. Three men had been in a boat that sank. Two had managed to reach shore, but the third...
Henry Blogg, G.C., B.E.M., of Cromer
HENRY GEORGE BLOGG, coxswain of the Cromer life-boat, retired at the end of last September, at the age of 71, after serving for over fifty-three years as a life-boatman. His record is unequalled in the 124 years of the Life-boat Service and...
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Meet my lifesavers
THE FISHERMAN
Sam Cully was fishing off the coast of County Down on 18 September when his boat started sinking.
The conditions were rough – there...
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A Phantom Jet
Phantom jet crew ON FRIDAY, December 5,1975, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Skegness lifeboat station at 1400 that an aircraft had crashed into the sea and that two parachutists had been seen.
The 37'...
Postscript (From Page 119)
the final fruition of this modern policy.
I recall a conversation I had with Cunninghame-Graham in the early days of my lifeboat career, when he said, 'It is not small boats, as at present, stationed in the bights, but...
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