LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hoocreek
ESCORT AFTER CARGO VESSEL IS REFLOATED Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 1.8 early on the morning of the 22nd January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cargo vessel had gone aground on Newcombe sands. The coastguard made...
Don't Get Carried Away
Mablethorpe Crew Member Claire MacDonald recommends: 'Please take care with inflatables - the majority of our shouts are for dinghies and rubber rings. Take notice of any warning signs and be aware that offshore winds can take... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Roman Empress
On the 9th Feb- ruary, the brig Human Empress was driven ashore near Redcar, in a very heavy gale and high surf. The Redcar life-boat was launched and proceeded to her aid, taking off her crew of 10 persons, and landing them in...
Moon Dragon
Family rescued AT 2125 ON SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1987, Hartland Coastguard informed Clovelly lifeboat's Staff Coxswain Roger Smith that the 29ft yacht Moon Dragon required immediate assistance two miles west of Hartland...
Penita
Two maydays FOLLOWING A MAYDAY from the yacht Penita received by Dover Coastguard on Friday August 29, 1980, Ramsgate lifeboat, the 44ft Waveney Ralph and Joy Swann, launched at 2330 under the command of Second Coxswain Derek Pegden, the...
Mrs Phyllis Duckworth,
MAY 1998 Mrs Phyllis Duckworth, former chairman and secretary of the Caversham branch. Mrs Duckworth was a member and chairman of the Reading and district branch for many years until 1979 when she founded the Caversham ladies guild which...
Category: Obituaries
Velocity
PORTHDINLLAEN.—On the 24th March, during a heavy gale from the N., accompanied by snow showers, the schooner Velocity, of Nefyn, bound from Silloth to Nefyn, with coal, /while at anchor in Porthdinllaen Bay, was observed to show a signal of...
Emily
On the 29th March the Life-boat Mark Lane was again called out, a small lugger, the Emily, of Gorleston, with two men on board, being observed with her mast and sail over the side. It was evident that she was not under control, herrudder, it...
Alfred
HOLYHEAD.—Signals of distress having been observed at the end of the breakwater, the Life-boat Thomas Fielden was launched at 5 A.M. on the 10th January, in a strong S.W. gale and a heavy sea and found the schooner Alfred stranded on the...
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CHILD TO HOSPITAL Stronsay, Orkneys. At 3.25 p.m. on 11 th October, 1965, the secretary of the hospital board told the honorary secretary that there was a child on the Isle of Sanday in need of urgent hospital treatment. The life-boat The...