LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DECEMBER 27TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 1.10 A.M. the Hoylake coastguard reported that a vessel had been mined ten miles N.W. of the Bar Lightvessel, and the No. 1 motor life-boat William and Kate Johnston put out. There was a light...

A YACHT UNDER OBSERVATION in the River Mersey approach channel in the vicinity of C13 Buoy was reported to the honorary secretary of New Brighton ILB station by Formby Coastguard at 1655 on Saturday, October 23, 1976. It was foreseen that,...

WORTHING.—The brigantine Halcyon, of St. Nazaire, laden with slates for London, being observed to be rapidly driving ashore in a whole gale from S.S.W. and a heavy sea on the 20th July, the Life-boat Henry Harris put off at 2.45 P.M., and on...

RESCUE BY LIFE-BOAT AND CANOES Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 1st June, 1963, a boy called at the second coxswain's house to inform him that a speed boat had capsized outside Cullercoats...

Aground on rocks A MEMBER OF LYME REGIS inshore lifeboat crew informed his honorary secretary at 1300 on Sunday, July 18, that a cabin cruiser was being driven on to Broad Ledge Rocks, half a mile east of the ILB station, and that one of her...

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.57 on the evening of the 24th of April, 1957, the watchman on the east pier reported that the motor boat Champion, with a crew of two, which had gone out to help the yacht Dawn, needed help as the key on her propeller...

Coxswain Francis Mair, of Buckie, Banffshire, has been awarded the Institution's thanks inscribed on vellum for rescuing the crew of an R.A.F. launch.

He took the life-boat right over the rocks on which the launch lay,...

Whit by, Yorkshire.—About ten o'clock in the morning, on the 13th of March, 1950, the No. 1 life-boat crew assembled as three fishing vessels were approaching the harbour in bad weather. At 10.50 the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was...