LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Olivier
Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 5.30 on the evening of the 27th of September, 1958, the motor mechanic told the coxswain that the cabin cruiser Olivier needed help off Skegness. At 5.50 the life-boat The Cuttle was launched in a heavy ground...
Tessa
Selsey, Sussex - At 7.54 p.m. on 2ist August, 1966, a motor cruiser was seen burning distress flares about two miles off Middleton. The life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched at 8.7 in a calm sea with fog patches. It was four hours after...
Club Rescue Launch
New Quay, Cardiganshire - At 3.25 p.m. on 4th August, 1966, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that the yacht club rescue launch was in difficulties off Llanena reef. At 3.45 the life-boat St.
Albans was launched in...
Minuet
Skipper taken ill THE YACHT Minuet, crossing the Channel from France with a crew of four on board on Thursday August 23, 1979, was making heavy weather and sent out a distress call; she was about eight miles east by north of Dover. HM...
Robin Knox-Johnston
Robin Knox-Johnston (r), the yachtsman and a member of the RNLI's committee of management, had a bet with Don Wood (I) on who would be first to Lowestoft in the Round Britain and Ireland Yacht Race. The stake was 20 pairs of boots for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Up Thames
The paragraph headed 'Life-boat Up Thames' on page 149 of the July Journal referred, of course, to Kingston and Surbiton. It had been planned that those mentioned should be there, but in fact they were not, and the 'mystery...
Category: Branches
Services of the Life-Boats In April, May and June, 1954. 91 Lives Rescued
APRIL DURING April life-boats were launched 26 times and rescued 22 lives.
THREE MEN RESCUED FROM SAILING BOAT Margate, Kent.—At 2.50 on the after- noon of the 1st of April, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that he had...
Category: Services
The S.S. Baron Elibank
Dover, Kent.—-At 9.35 in the morning of the 21st of August, 1948, the Sand- gate coastguard reported information from the s.s. Baron Elibank that two men had been seen in a rowing boat eight miles east by south of Dover, and the motor...
Two Life-boatmen Cross the Atlantic
IN March, 1949, two former members of the life-boat's crew at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Stanley Smith, aged thirty, and Colin Smith, aged twenty-nine, sons of Coxswain S. T. Smith, went to Canada. There, at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, they...
Category: Articles
My Lady
POLISH TRAWLERS GUIDED TO HARBOUR Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
On the afternoon of the llth August, 1962, the yacht My Lady of Hartlepool, which had a crew of five, grounded on a sandbank just inside the entrance to...