LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Aldebaran
ESCORT FOR HOLED DUTCH MOTOR VESSEL Holyhead, Anglesey. At 10.27 on the morning of the 20th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that a Dutch motor vessel was making water rapidly and needed help...
Fishing Boats (1)
Early on the morning of the 9th April the Beadnell and North Sunderland fishing boats put to sea, but the weather became bad and eight of them returned.
At 10.30 A.M. a very strong E.N.E. wind was blowing, with a very heavy...
None (4)
FATHER AND SON At 5.25 p.m. on 5th September, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a boy was reported to be stranded on Renney rocks but that further investigation was necessary. At 5.36 the message was confirmed. It was one hour...
Lead Us (1)
Wbitby, and Scarborough, Yorkshire.— During the early morning of the 24th of March, 1951, the motor fishing boat, Lead Us, of Whitby, put out from Whitby with a crew of five. But the weather got worse and at 11.0 she was seen off...
Lifeboat People
Dewi Rowlands, a launcher at St David's from 1942 and head launcher since 1963, is the third generation of his family to serve this lifeboat station.
When he retired in January, they had, between them, spanned the 97...
Category: Articles
Atbara
CROMER AND PALLING, NORFOLK.—At about 4.30 P.M. on the llth February the Cromer Life-boat, Louisa Hearticell, and the Palling No. 2 Life-boat, Hearts of Oak, went off to the Haisbro' Sands in response to a message from the light vessel...
Effort
The ketch Effort, of Southampton, stranded on the Shingle Bank during a N.E. gale, on the 22nd January, and the heavy seas made a clean breach over her. At 5.30 P.M. the Life-boat Robert Fleming was launched and proceeded to. the as-...
Kittiwake
Eastbourne, Sussex. At 7.10 on the evening of the 13th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized about three-quarters of a mile from the boathouse. The life-boat Beryl Tollemache was...
Julia
Cox- swain Kelly of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 1 on the 23rd March saw a schooner miss stays and get into a dangerous position near the rocks beneath the lime kilns at Port St. Mary.
A strong southerly breeze was...
Midsummer
The smack Midsummer of Douglas was lying in the bay on the evening of the 2nd September, when the wind changed to N.N.W., increased to a moderate gale, and a heavy sea rose. The smack com- menced to drag her anchor, and the Master, who was...