LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Speed Boat
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
Trustful and a Dinghy
ENGINE FAILURE T At 4.53 p.m. on igth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two people were trying to row ashore from a motor fishing vessel anchored five miles south-south-east of Hastings. The honorary secretary...
Muddy waters
How would the occupants of a yacht survive when it sank within seconds at the mouth of the Thames? Anne Millman finds out
On the overcast but cold morning of 17 February, Thames Coastguard at Waltonon- the-Naze heard an...
Category: Articles
Excel
The Life-boat Four Sisters pro- ceeded through a heavy westerly gale to the Eaxel, a schooner belonging to Mil- ford, which, on the 9th December, was wrecked neat the Owers Lightship. A heavy surf raged along the beach, and a long struggle...
Mrs. Tom Lisle and Mr. William Freeman, of St. Ives
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Category: Photographs
Bessie Whinery
QUEENSTOWN. —A telegram was received from the officer of Coastguard at Ballycroneen, at about 3 A.M. on the 4th March, stating that a vessel was displaying signals of distress off that place. The Quiver Life-boat was speedily despatched to...
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Leap overboard TORQUAY POLICE informed Brixham Coastguard at 1537 on October 5, 1973, that a girl was in the water off Meadfoot Beach and asked for the help of the ILB.
The message was passed to Torbay deputy launching...
Silver Medal for Sheringham Coxswain
AT 8.20 on the morning of the 31st of October, 1956, the Sheringham honorary secretary, Brigadier A. L.
Kent Lemon, learnt from the Cromer coastguard that the S.S. Wimbledon, a ship of 1598 tons, had reported by radio that...
Category: Services
Scotish Isles
At 6 P.M. on the 17th of May a full-rigged ship was observed on the Goodwin Sands, and just then a signal of distress was hoisted. The crew of the Life-boat Francis Forbes Barton were summoned and the boat was launched. On getting alongside...