LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SBA, NORTHUMBERLAND.
—A signal of distress was made by a vessel northward of Newbiggin point, on the morning of the 9th Jan. 1889. The wind was blowing a gale from the S.E., the sea was very rough, and the...
Category: Services
Gonslave, of Nantes
On the 8th March, 1859, the French brigantine Gonscdve, of Nantes, got embayed off Padstow, and, on making for the harbour, was caught by the eddy winds at the entrance, and driven by the tide and heavy sea on to the Doombar Sand, when her...
Walmer Life-Boat Crew at French Embassy
THE crew of the Walmer life-boat went to London on Thursday, 27th of November, to receive the medals awarded to them by the French life-boat society, La societe centrale de sauvetage des naufrages for the rescue on the 13th of January, 1952,...
Category: Medals
A Rowing Boat (1)
Youghal, and Ballycotton, Co. Cork, and Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 21st of July, 1954, a woman told the Youghal life- boat coxswain that her husband and another man had put out from Youghal on...
£17,000 from South Africa.
The Southern African Branch, which was formed at a meeting at the end of February, 1942, had within a year sent the Institution £9,000 out of the £11,000 which it aims to raise in order to provide a motor life-boat to be named...
Category: Articles
Claxfield
At 7.30 P.M. on the 14th March the shore attendant telephoned that a pinnace from a Portuguese ship was ashore west of the pier. When the life-boat's crew arrived at the pier head to man the life-boat they found that the pin- nace was...
Cestrian Maid
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 11.40 on the morning of the 5th of June, 1956, it was reported that the crew of two of the yacht Cestrian Maid, of Liverpool, were signalling for help off Gallows Point. The life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts,...
Perichole
At 9.35 p.m. on 3rd September, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small sloop anchored near Penman point was being buffeted by gale force winds and that anxiety was felt for her safety in the fading light. The life-boat...
Sailing Dinghies
Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 6.45 p.m.
on 3rd October, 1965, the secretary of the Penmaenmawr Yacht Club reported that a number of their sailing dinghies had been caught in a sudden squall and had overturned. The sailing club...
Climbing Crew
Two 12-year-old boys were out exploring the north Devon coastline when they got cut off by the tide 10m up a cliff.
Several passers-by reported the boys’ predicament to the Coastguard, which requested the launch of...
Category: Articles