LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Willowpool (2)
DEC. 10TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK, CAISTER, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 8.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that the steamer Willowpool, of Hartlepool,was sending out S.O.S. signals fourteen miles N.E...
Watson at Whitby
Readers may be interested to see this photograph of the ex-Whitby lifeboat, Mary Ann Hepwonh, taken at Whitby regatta. The old Watson lifeboat is now used for trips out to sea for holidaymakers and the picture shows her taking part in a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Delia
AUGUST 29TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 3.30 in the afternoon, messages were received from the Colwyn Bay police and the Rhyl coastguard that a fishing boat was in distress off Rhos pier, drifting seawards. A strong...
Success
NOVEMBER 19TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
During the afternoon the weather worsened. The only Whitby fishing boat still at sea was the motor fishing boat Success.
Anxiety was felt for her safety. A southwesterly...
Platypus
DECEMBER 12TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
At 8.50 at night the coastguard reported a small vessel flashing SOS signals half a mile east of Heugh Light. A light westerly breeze was blowing and the sea was slight. The motor...
New Life-Boat Station In Ireland.
In August the Institution opened a new station on the west coast of Ireland at Killybegs, in Donegal Bay, and stationed there one of its most powerful motor life-boats, a 5i-feet Barnett cabin boat with two 60 h.p. engines. She is the...
Category: Articles
Overdue at Depth
Longhope’s Tamar class lifeboat Helen Comrie was called on 11 August to help search for a missing diver after his support vessel reported him overdue.
The lifeboat’s Deputy Second Coxswain took command of the dive boat...
Category: Articles
Ann
AUGUST 12TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 10.55 in the morning a report was received from returning fishermen that a boat was believed to have capsized as she left the fishing grounds in Pegwell Bay. A strong south-south-west breeze was blowing and...
Touching distance
A severed finger, no engine, rough seas: that was the harsh reality a yacht skipper faced off the Devon coast at the end of April. So how would he reach hospital?
‘All we knew when we launched...
Category: Articles
UNDER PRESSURE
When a swimmer drew close to a pier at a Dorset beach, lifeguards moved quickly to warn him of the dangers – but they soon found he needed more than advice
The waters off Boscombe beach looked deceptively calm on 5 May....
Category: Articles