LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pearl
In very cold weather, during heavy snow-showers, the Life-boat Hollon the Second was launched on the 25th February, to assist a vessel which was reported ashore under Speeton Cliffs. On reaching the vessel it was found that she had lost her...
Snowflake
Stromness, Orkneys. At ten o'clock on the night of the 10th of December, 1958, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that there was a boat ashore in Hoy Sound. Ten minutes later the life-boat Archibald and Alex- ander M....
A Drifter (2)
— 3rd December. A drifter had been seen to sink and her crew take to the ship's boat. Another drifter belonging to the same port picked them up.—Rewards, £7 16s. 6d..
A Canoe (1)
JULY 9TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. A canoe had capsized with two people on board, but the police rescued them from the shore with lines.-Rewards, £5 13s..
Launch to Radio Caroline Vessel
AT 9.30 on the evening of the igth January, 1966, the Walton coastguard reported that the motor vessel Mi Amiga, from which Radio Caroline broadcasts were transmitted, appeared to be dragging her anchor. Weather conditions were extremely bad...
Category: Services
Jupiter
At about 11 A.M. on 28th February the Hoylake Coastguard reported that a small motor boat was at anchor or aground near Spencers Spit, and that they were keep- ing her under observation. Later they reported that the boat had disappeared, and...
Xepha and Sea Keveral
Yacht swept out to sea AN UNMANNED YACHT, Xephd, had broken adrift in Braye Harbour, Alderney, on the evening of Sunday May 5, 1985, and Coxswain Stephen Shaw of Alderney lifeboat, who is also the deputy harbour master, was aboard the...
Your Letters
Charting progress I recently finished reading the Spring 1994 issue of THE LIFEBOAT and am, as always, utterly amazed at the achievements of the Institution over the years.
The accounts of the lifeboat services in...
Category: Correspondence
Johnnie-Belinda
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.30 on the night of the 24th of September, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a boat was flashing an S O S signal north- west-by-west of the Barrow Deep lightvessel. At 8.58 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was...
Your Letters
Sweet Revenge Please allow me to have sweet revenge on my friend Mr Tony Pearce, who is the auxiliary in charge of St Davids coastguard station.
When I first took over as the honorary secretary of St Davids lifeboat station...
Category: Correspondence