LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Surfboard
Surfer saved RNLI lifeguards battled adverse conditions on 3 July 2005 to save the life of a surfer at Tolcarne Bay in Cornwall. He had severe head injuries from having been repeatedly washed onto the rocks. Lifeguard Richie Mullin dived...
Valkerye
JANUARY 29TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.
At 3.15 P.M. Mr. A. N. Cunningham, a member of the local committee, reported that the motor fishing boat Valkerye, of Pittenweem, lying just off the harbour, was showing distress...
A Spitfire Aeroplane (4)
JUNE 19TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. At 6.46 in the morning the St. Leonard’s coastguard called up the life-boat coxswain. An aeroplane was down in the sea. A strong north-east wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. Owing to a sand bank, the...
Barendsz
APRIL 26TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE.
The motor vessel Barendsz, of Rotterdam, was flying a four-flag signal, but it was found to be her name in code and she had only come in close for shelter in an easterly gale. Two...
A Spitfire Aeroplane (5)
MAY 3RD. - BLACKPOOL, AND FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea six miles west of Blackpool. The Blackpool life-boat could not launch at once as the tractor was engaged in an attempt to salve another...
Rosedene
DECEMBER 4TH. - SEAHAM, DURHAM.
About 4.40 A.M. the coastguard reported a vessel aground at Hawthorne Point, two miles south of Seaham coastguard look-out.A light S.W. wind was blowing, with a ground swell, and the weather...
Anne, of Plymouth
On the 14th September, the brig Anne, f Plymouth, and the schooner Betsey, of Peterhead, during a heavy gale from the S.W., were compelled to anchor in an unsafe position near Holy head; on the 15th, the wind shifting, they dragged their...
Cruz V, of Orporto
On the night of the I 21st September, the barque Cruz V., of Oporto, with a general cargo, drove ashore near Dungeness Point. The Dungeness life- boat was speedily launched, and proceeded through 4 miles, of broken water to her aid, when...
The Motor Yawl Lily
FEBRUARY 9TH . - ABERDEEN. On returning to port at 6.12 P.M. the motor yawl Olive reported that she had spent an hour searching for the motor yawl Lily, of Aberdeen, which had been last seen disabled off the mouth of the River Don. A light S...
A Curragh
AUG. 1ST. - GALWAY BAY, GALWAY.
At 6 P.M. a message was received from Inishere that a Connemara boatman had reported that he had passed an upturned curragh half a mile north of Sandhead. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing,...