LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
STRANDED IN A CAVE
MINEHEAD | 18 DECEMBER
Minehead lifeboat crew launched at first light after a husband and son reported their wife/mother missing. She had slipped 3m down a cliff near her home in Porlock, Devon, and – unable to climb back up –...
Category: Services
Pepita
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 19th of December, 1957, the coastguard told the honorary Secretary that red flares had been seen from the Shipwash lightvessel two miles to the north-west of the light- vessel's...
None (2)
Clovelly, Devon.—At 9.50 on the night of the 24th of August, 1957, the Hartland Point coastguard reported by telephone that a young man, who had set out at 2.30 in the afternoon to walk from Clovelly to Hartland along the beach, was missing....
Castle Cove
MFV sinks BLYTH LIFEBOAT station motor mechanic, John Scott, called up Tynemouth Coastguard at 1825 on Tuesday December 7, 1982, to tell them that the lifeboat would be sailing for a rough weather exercise. He was informed that the fishing...
Andradite
Barra Island, Hebrides.—At 3.30 on the morning of the 7th of March, 1957, a message was received from the Storno- way coastguard that the steam trawler Andradite, of Fleetwood, was ashore near Curachan Rock. The life-boat Lloyds put out at...
An Aeroplane (2)
Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—At about 10.15 on the night of the 10th of June, 1948, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned the Port St. Mary, Port Erin, and Douglas life- boat stations that an aeroplane, with eight...
Is It War?
A LITTLE while ago a woman visitor at one of the life-boat stations was talking one evening to the motor mechanic near the life-boathouse. As they talked they watched an aeroplane passing overhead. It was just above them when the life-boat...
Category: Articles
A Sailing Boat
Rolled over ON TUESDAY EVENING, August 24, 1982, at 1938, Mudeford station honorary secretary and a lifeboatman, John Batchelor, sighted a red flare 2l/2 miles south west of the lifeboat station off Hengistbury Head. Maroons were fired and...
Your shout
I was interested to read your article ‘Wind power in Shetland’. At a time when wind power, in the form of a proposed 150-turbine wind farm in Shetland, is the subject of much debate, I believe that smaller units to make individual operations...
Category: Articles
Dianne
Scarborough, Yorkshire - At 8.10 p.m.
on 12th October, 1966, the Scarborough lighthouse keeper informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was in a dangerous position off the South bay. The life-boat J. G. Graves of...