LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles
A strong westerly gale with a rough sea came up, on the 16th January, whilst the fishing cobles were at sea, and about 11 A.M. the Life-boat Ada Lewis was launched to attend them into safety.
The gale having arisen quite...
E286
HELICOPTER RESCUES TWO FROM DINGHY Minehead, and Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 11.30 on the morning of the 26th August, 1962, the police at Minehead reported that a dinghy, with a crew of two, was in difficulties off Dunster beach, and at...
Mountblairy, of Plymouth
Rosslare Harbour (Co. Wexford).
On the 20th October, the schooner Mountblairy, of Plymouth, was driven ashore about five miles from Rosslare Harbour in a whole gale, with a very heavy sea running. She lay surrounded by...
St. Kilda
Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 2.10 on the morning of the 25th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen about ten miles from St. Anne's Head.
A light south-west wind was...
Sallie
At 6 A.M. on the 31st January the fishing cobles put to sea to haul their lines, and at 9 A.M.
the wind and sea increased. Twenty- one of the cobles got into safety, but the coble Sallie was in great danger when she was...
Rose of England
Tees mouth, and Redcar, Yorkshire.— At 6.40 in the evening of the 23rd of May, 1948, the South Gare coastguard reported both to Teesmouth and Redcar that a rowing boat, with three boys on board, was in difficulties near broken water...
All hands!
Thousands of volunteers and hundreds of staff are needed to provide back-up to the RNLI’s lifesavers – so how does the charity find the right people for the job?
‘The Institution is very anxious to form or develop Branches...
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Kestrel and Anemone III
Dungeness, Kent.—At 12.27 in the afternoon of the 25th of August, 1948, the Jury Gap coastguard telephoned that a yacht was making very heavy weather about one and a half miles south-south-east of the Gap, and the motor life-boat...
Kaye
Dungeness, Kent. At 2.44 on the afternoon of the 7th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was in distress seven miles south-east-by-south of Dungeness. At 3.5 the life-boat Mabel E. Holland was...
Martin Gust
On the night of the 5th April the Life-boat James Stevens No. 9 was called out to a vessel which had stranded on the Black- tail Spit, but on reaching the vessel the master declined any assistance, as he hoped to float his vessel clear on...