LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bernard Claudine
St Helier, Jersey. At 3.34 on the afternoon of the 12th of August, 1958, a message was received that a yacht was attempting to tow another yacht two and a half miles from St. Helier harbour.
The tow rope was seen to part on...
Mignonette, of Southampton
Weymouth, Dorset - At 8.28 p.m. on 12th September, 1966, red flares were sighted in Weymouth Bay. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke left her moorings at 8.48 in a strong westerly wind and a rough sea. The tide was ebbing. She proceeded to a...
Suedor
Swanage, Dorset - At 4.50 p.m. on 2nd September, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been fired from a trimaran one and a half miles south of Peveril Point. At 5 o'clock the lifeboat R.L.P. was...
Sule Skerry
Seven saved FALMOUTH, Sunday May 24, 1987: The 56ft yacht Sule Skerry was in the Helford River with a heavy swell running when a rope fouled her propeller and she was driven into a rocky cleft at the foot of the cliffs at Durgan, near...
Arab
RAMSGATE.—At 3.15 P.M. on the 24th October, during a gale of wind from the W.S.W. and a heavy sea, signals of distress were shows by the Gull Light vessel. The Life-boat Bradford was manned, and went out in tow of the harbour steam-tug...
A Stern Test
A STERN TEST Inshore lifeboats are equipped with powerful engines to reach casualties quickly, but many rescues call for some strong handiwork too. Rory Stamp reports The skipper knew it wouldn’t be easy to get his yacht Sub Woofer back into...
Category: Articles
Award for Bravest Act of Lifesaving
THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life-boat crew in 1961 has been won by Coxswain John Stonehouse of Teesmouth for the rescue of the crew of three of the yacht Sybil Kathleen on the 1st...
Category: Awards
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1951
Persons rescued from shipwreck Kilmore life-boat landed a sick man from the Coningbeg lightvessel.
Fishing coble Premier, of Scarborough. Scarborough life-boat escorted coble.
Fishing boat Isa Simpson, of...
Category: Services
Hawkes Eye, of Dublin
AUGUST 7TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.
At 3.20 in the afternoon a report was received by telephone from the Bailey Lighthouse that a yacht was showing a distress signal. A south-south-west wind was blowing, with a moderate sea....
Kiki and Catamaran Acarus
Two calls in gale NEWHAVEN LIFEBOAT, the 47' Watson Kathleen Mary, was called out twice on Thursday, November 4, 1976. During the early evening HM Coastguard had been watching a yacht coming from the west, close inshore. As she turned in...