LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Recovery position
Sunderland’s Atlantic 85 Wolseley is shown being recovered by davit on 15 November 2008. Her shout turned out to be a false alarm with good intent. A member of the public had reported a fishing boat in difficulty to the Coastguard but when...
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Sheringham's Retiring Coxswain By Edward Wake-Walker
Henry 'Joyful' West, BEM, retired as coxswain of Sheringham lifeboat at the end of 1984 after a long and distinguished career. He is a man who would rather talk about the achievements of others than his own, but the 'Joyful'...
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Silver Coquet , Provider
Amble, Northumberland - At 10.30 a.m. on ist December, 1966, two fishing cobles were reported overdue. Atn o'clock the Life-boat Millie Walton left her moorings. It was nearly low water. There was a rough sea and a southerly...
Vassan Girl
YACHT AGROUND North Foreland radio station reported at 3.31 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, that a yacht was aground one and a half miles west of Mid Barrow lightvessel. No distress signals had been fired by the yacht but she had a heavy list. The...
Linear II
Life in the old girl yet! The Robert, Beaumaris1 Watson class lifeboat bid a fine farewell during her passage back to the RNLI's Poole depot following her withdrawal from service in July.
She was called into service...
An Aeroplane (139)
SEPTEMBER 30TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE. A British aeroplane was reported at 9.15 PM. to have fallen into the sea off Hunstanton, but though the life-boat cruised for 50 miles, she saw nothing.
About midnight, however,...
Gently Does It
GENTLY DOES IT A crash between a personal watercraft and a powerboat left a 16-year-old boy in agony, needing urgent but careful attention Aberdovey lifeboat crew were just back from a call out to a kitesurfer when they were asked by radio...
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A Steamer
At 7.50 A.M. on 20th May a message was received from the Coastguard Station that the Kentish Knock Lightship had reported a large steamer ashore on the Knock Sands, but that she was not making a distress signal. Communica- tion was...
Useful
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 9.25 on the evening of the 2nd of December, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel six miles south-west-by-south of Shoreham was making distress signals. At 9.35 the life-boat Rosa...
T.I.D. 66
TUG TAKEN IN TOW TO HARBOUR Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
At 2.24 on the morning of the 12th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen about six miles east of Berwick,...