LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Boats
Launch team praised THE STORMS which battered the south east coast of England last autumn left Eastbourne lifeboat station behind a three foot high sandbank, 30ft in length.
At 1913 on November 1, 1987, Coxswain Graham Cole...
S.S. Empire Prospero
JANUARY 4TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
At 9.15 in the morning the port war signal station telephoned that a steamer was ashore on the North Gare Breakwater.
A strong and increasing north-north-east wind...
Condor
At about 8 P.M. on the 14th March the coast- guard reported that a sailing vessel was in a dangerous position near the Lands End. A heavy sea was running vrith a light S.W. breeze. The Life-boat Ann Newbon was launched, and on getting south...
Marathon man
Out with the antiseptic and sticking plasters. GP and RNLI Medical Adviser Dr JJ Green talks about how he caught the marathon bug …
‘It’s a disease,’ Dr JJ Green quips as he prepares for the 2010 Virgin London Marathon....
Category: Articles
May
St. Ives, Cornwall. On the afternoon of the 25th of June, 1958, anxiety was felt by local fisherman for the safety of the fishing boat May, of St. Ives, as she had not returned from the fishing grounds. The wind was freshening quickly to...
Swimming
A RECRUIT, on entering the French army, is early taught to swim. Water, when it becomes familiar, is the best of friends.
Soldiers have been known to march fifteen miles further (after a long march) under a sultry sun,...
Category: Articles
Hans Hoth (1)
Tynemouth, and Culler-coats, Northumberland.
—At 11.43 in the morning of the 9th of February, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Hans Hoth, of Hamburg, of 370 tons, with a crew of nine, had wirelessed...
None (2)
Selsey, Sussex. At 4.35 on the after- noon of the 20th of July, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that three bathers were in diffi- culties off Selsey Bill point. At 4.40 the life-boat Canadian Pacific put out in a...
A Catamaran Floral Dancer
Catamaran out of control A CATAMARAN, Floral Dancer of Falmouth with a crew of three aboard, out of control and needing help was reported to the honorary secretary of Sennen Cove lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1347 on Saturday February...
A Hurricane Aeroplane (1)
SEPTEMBER 8TH. - BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 9.43 in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a British Hurricane aeroplane had crashed into the sea two miles east of Embleton, some seven miles N.N.E. of the...