LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ploughboy
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—During the afternoon of the 27th October, 1938, the local fishing boat Ploughboy, with two men on board, was caught at sea by bad weather. A moderate and increasing N.E. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The motor...
Sunbeam
RAMSGATE.—In response to signals from the Gull Light-vessel, the Life-boat Bradford was towed out by the harbour steam-tug Aid at 2.10 A.M., on the llth February, while a strong gale was blowing from S.S.W., accompanied by a heavy sea and...
Pearl
In very cold weather, during heavy snow-showers, the Life-boat Hollon the Second was launched on the 25th February, to assist a vessel which was reported ashore under Speeton Cliffs. On reaching the vessel it was found that she had lost her...
Malvoisin
At 3.15 A.M., on the 15th January a message was received from the Kentish Knock Lightvessel reporting a ship ashore on the sands.
A whole S.E. gale was blowing, the sea was very heavy, and the weather bitterly cold. Without...
Weaver
PORTHDINLLAEN, NORTH WALES. On the 7th July the George Moore Life-boat went out in reply to signals of distress, during a "W.N.W. wind and rough sea,and remained by the schooner Weaver, of Carnarvon, until she was out of danger, she...
Triharda
Crew saved after long and difficult service to capsized trimaran Yarmouth's Arun Joy and John Wade was involved in a service on 11 December 1993 which made headlines in the national press. The lifeboat had spent nearly five hours at sea ...
Frederick T. Everard
DOCTOR TREATS INJURED MEN IN LIFE-BOAT Anstruther, Fife. At 3.1 on the afternoon of the 17th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Frederick T. Everard of London had two injured men on board who...
Aldborough
The life-boat formerly placed at Sizewell- Gap, on the east coast of Suffolk, has been for the present transferred to Aldborough, five miles farther south, as a more serviceable spot, and where it can be...
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Trawler in trouble
2 October 2012: RNLI lifeboats from Tynemouth, Blyth and Cullercoats mounted a joint operation to bail out a sinking trawler. Tynemouth Crew Member Ian Black entered the engine room of the badly listing vessel,...
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Lom
SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 23rd October a flash light was observed from a vessel ashore on the Knock Sands. The Herbert Ingram Life-boat was launched as soon as possible, the wind blowing a heavy gale from the S.SE. at the time,...