LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Dinghy
EXTENSIVE SEARCH At 8.15 a.m. on 24th April, 1965, the coastguard reported that an empty sailing dinghy had been picked up by a vessel off No. 5 Sea Reach buoy. The life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched at 8.35....
Mandy (1)
Runswick, Yorkshire - At 2.30 p.m.
on 28th June, 1967, a rowing boat with a broken oar was seen being swept out to sea off Staithes. The life-boat The Elliott Gill was launched at 2.45 in a strong south westerly breeze and...
The Record of 1925
Terrible Winter Storms.
THE year 1925 was, until November, unusually calm, and this fact is reflected in the number of lives rescued, 383, as compared with 454 in 1924. la the last nine weeks of the year, however, there...
Category: Annual Reports
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Top award for lifeguards
A year ago we reported how lifeguards at West Kirby in Merseyside teamed up with lifeboat crews to save a man who had fallen onto rocks. Now the team have been recognised with a special award.
The Alison Saunders...
Category: Articles
Wanderer and The Nautilus
Again, on the 10th May, the fishing boats were oTertaken by a heavy sea, which sprang up very suddenly and which was felt all along the east coast of Scotland.
The boats made with all speed for the harbour. One of them, the...
Foreign Life-Boat Societies
DUHIXG 1952 foreign life-boats went out to the help of 12 British vessels and rescued over 40 lives from them.
Belgium Belgian life-boats went to the help of two British yachts, one of which was towed into harbour and the...
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George, of Sunderland
On the morn- ing of the 17th of November a vessel was seen burning a light as a signal of distress during a strong gale from S.S.E., and in a heavy sea. The Grocers' life-boat, sta- tioned at Mundesley, was at once got ready, and...
The Destroyer H.M.S. Walrus
Teesmouth, and Scarborough, Yorkshire.
—At 4.20 P.M. on the 12th February, 1938, a request was received from the coastguard at Whitby for the motor life-boa.t J. W. Archer, as the destroyer H.M.S. Walrus had broken from her...
John Robert, White Rose and Little Madge
Cromer, and Sheringham, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 2nd April the fishing boats John Robert and White Rose, of Cromer, and Little Madge, of Sheringham, each with a crew of two, put to sea in fine weather. The weather changed, and at about...