LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Appledore, Devon - At 7.16 p.m. on 12th April, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two boys were stranded on the rocks on the south side of Baggy point. The lifeboat Louisa Anne Hawker with the boarding boat in tow slipped...

On the 17th February the brig Brothers, of Shields, was totally wrecked on the Redcar Rocks, near the mouth of the River Tees. On her perilous position being seen from the shore, the Redcar life-boat proceeded to her, and rescued her crew, 7...

AT 4.45 on the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1956, a ten-feet dinghy in which two boys aged fourteen and fifteen were sailing capsized about half a mile from the shore at Minnis Bay, near Birchington, Kent. A small boy saw the dinghy capsize...

Fisherman plucked to safety by D class as night falls T Lifeboats he three crew members of Sunderland's D class inshore lifeboat received a framed letter of thanks from David Acland, the RNLI's Chairman following a service in poor...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 21st of May, 1955, the local fishing fleet was at sea when the weather worsened, and at eight o'clock the No. 1 life-boat J. W. Archer, on temporary duty at the station, was launched, with an...

JUNE 17TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 9.45 A.M. on the 16th June, a vessel in the Barley Picle was flying the “ Not under control ” signal. She was kept under observation. At noon a tug went out but found that the vessel,...

JANUARY 1 2TH. - BALTIMORE, CO.

CORK. Five local fishing boats were several miles out, line-fishing, and as a strong breeze got up from the S.W. four of them returned a t 2 P . M . The wind increased, the sea became very...

RESCUES BY HELICOPTER AND PILOT CUTTER Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 3.47 on the afternoon of the 22nd August, 1962, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that a motor vessel had capsized on the Kibble bar. At 4.12 the life-boat...