LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Remembering Mum
When fun-loving Judith Lunan suddenly passed away, it was a huge shock to her family. Then they discovered her favourite charity
‘I know Mum would be so pleased that we are doing something positive in her name,’ says Sarah...
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Express
SEATON CAREW.—Eockete and flares having been seen on the Longscar Bocks during an E. wind, a strong sea, and foggy weather on the 21st October, the Job Hindley Life-boat was launched at 7 P.M., proceeded in the direction in which the signals...
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Two girls stranded A DOCK POLICEMAN at Hartlepool saw two girls stranded on a sewer pipe near Seaton Beach on the afternoon of Sunday May 27. He informed the Dock Master's office immediately and, as the crew were in the vicinity of the...
Ceol-na-Mara
Aberdeen's Arun class lifeboat was on service for almost seven hours in gale force winds when the fishing vessel Ceol-na-Mara sprang a leak some 30 miles from the station.The Arun, BP Forties, was launched at 0430 on 12 February 1995...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
A LONG SEARCH IN FOG Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— At 8.35 in the evening of the 17th of August, 1947, the Filey coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy, in which two men had put out fishing at 2.0 in the afternoon, should have...
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...
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Four Fishing Cobles
At 2 P.M.
on the 2nd February it was necessary to launch the No. 1 Life-boat Forester, to assist four of the fishing cobles, which were at sea, the weather having become very rough, with a N.N.W. gale and very choppy sea....
Victoria
SUNDERLAND.—On the 14th April, at about 5.30 P.M., during stormy weather and a heavy sea, with the wind on shore, 9 lives were saved by the Life-boat John,Foulston, from the barque Victoria, of Sunderland, which vessel, while on a voyage to...
Lieutenant Alphonse Herbez
Galway Bay.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 5th of February, 1951, the Coast Life-Saving Service reported a French trawler on the rocks one and a half miles south-east of Kilronan pier. Another French trawler had called at Kilronan...
Speedwell
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. At 6.30 on the morning of the 7th of September, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a flashing white light had been seen four miles west-north-west of Aberystwyth. The honorary secretary went...