LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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St. Ives, Cornwall - At 9.29 p.m. on 23rd August, 1967, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a flare had been seen off Clodgy point. The IRB was launched at 9,35. The life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched 10...
Bridlington's Mersey Class 1 Lifeboat Peggy and Alex Caird
Lightning strike Bridlington's Mersey class 1 ifeboat Peggy and Alex Caird, alerted in the service above, is pictured in action later, on 27 June 1989, when she was called to the aid of a Whitbyregistered coble. The vessel had been... - View image in PDF
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R-eel-y good deed The crew of Cullercoats inshore lifeboat went to the aid of an unusual casualty in March - a 7ft conger eel! The 70lb fish, named Queenie, was given a flying start on her journey to the spawning grounds of the Azores, when...
Peterborough Trader
JAN. 20TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At about 11.30 P.M. the life-boat watchman reported a vessel ashore on the Middle Binks. She was the motor vessel Peterborough Trader, of Wisbech, bound for the Humber. A light, variable...
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AUG. 6TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET, AND YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 6.10 P.M.. the coastguard informed the life-boat station at Swanage that a sailing yacht had capsized off Christchurch Ledge Buoy, and the motor life-boat Thomas Markby was...
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Nov. 21ST. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A message was received in the evening that an explosion and distress signals had been heard east of Withernsea, and the life-boat was launched at 7.35 P.M., just as an attack by a German...
Melrose, of Swansea
OCTOBER 4TH. - FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHENSHIRE.
At 7.20 in the evening the Pembrey coastguard telephoned that a small vessel was in difficulty in the Llanelly Estuary.
A strong northerly wind was blowing, with...
Bellerophon, of Lowestoft
NOVEMBER 8TH. - GALWAY BAY. At 9.5 at night the life-boat coxswain heard a ship’s siren continually sounding, in the direction of Straw Island, and then saw distress rockets. A north-westerly breeze was blowing, but the sea was calm. The...
Windsurfer overcome
18 October: The Mumbles Just as preparations for the Mumbles Oyster Festival were taking place, a visitor spotted a windsurfer in difficulty half a mile out to sea. The volunteers launched their inshore lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Gallant and Successful Rescue of a Shipwrecked Crew By a Student
WE think the following interesting account of an extraordinary and a gallant act, on the part of a student of divinity, in rescuing a shipwrecked crew is deserving of a record in the pages of the Life-boat Journal:-— We extract it from Dr....
Category: Articles