LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Avis
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 10.15 on the night of the 9th of August, 1959, the owner of the yacht Avis told the honorary secretary that the yacht, which had two men on board, was over- due on passage from Beaumaris to Knott End,...
None (1)
Stranded children EDINBURGH CITY POLICE informed Queensferry ILB station at 1725 on Sunday February 4 that four children and their dog were stranded on Cramond Island. The children had tried to return to the mainland by the causeway but, cut...
Prelude
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 4.37 a.m. on 14th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that workmen from British Rail had reported sighting a red flare, possibly outside the breakwater. At 4.39 the coastguard sighted a white...
Tricky Manoeuvre
Following your news item about the exercise with a passenger vessel as described in the spring LIFEBOAT magazine, I thought you may be interested in the enclosed action shot.
Harwich lifeboat was launched on service to the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
April (1)
CROOKHAVEN, Co. CORK. At one in the afternoon of the 31st of December, 1945, six men put out in a six-oar rowing boat to salve a bale of rubber about two miles at sea. A south-south-east wind of almost gale force was blowing, with a very...
Category: Services
United States Life-Saving Service
THERE were 269 stations in this Life- saving Service at the close of the fiscal year which ended on the 30th June, 1900, this total being 4 in excess of that for the previous year. Of this number (269) 194 were situated on the Atlantic and...
Category: Articles
Proficient
DECEMBER 24TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
Five men of a salvage firm were at work on the motor fishing boat Proficient, of Lowestoft, which was under Admiralty control and which, a few days before, had gone ashore ahout 400...
New Life-Boats
MABLETHORPE (LINCOLNSHIRE).—In a former number of the Life-boat Journal (217), it was mentioned that the boat at this station had been replaced by a new one of the Liverpool type, 36 ft.
long by 9 ft. wide, and that she was...
Category: Inaugurations
A Sailboard (1)
Sail board in trouble AT 1553 on Wednesday, November 21, 1984, the honorary secretary of Aberystwyth lifeboat station was informed by Milford Haven coastguard that a board sailor was in trouble just outside the mouth of Aberystwyth...
Casamance (3)
FEBRUARY 17TH. - HARTLEPOOL, AND SEAHAM, DURHAM, AND REDCAR, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. Shortly after midnight a message came to the Hartlepool honorary secretary’s house from the coastguard that the life-boat was wanted. The honorary secretary...