LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats (2)
MAY 15TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
Several fishing boats were out, some crabbing and some fishing, and as at 10 in the morning three of the boats could not be seen from the coastguard’s look-out it was decided to search for them...
Pilot Me and Glad Tidings
FEBRUARY 26TH. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At one in the afternoon the coastguard reported two cobles in difficulties a mile and a half to the south-east and unable to make the harbour. A north-east wind was blowing, with a...
French Life-Boat Returns
In April, less than a month before the war ended, a French lifeboat which had served on the British coast for nearly four years, was returned to the French Service. She was the "Jean Charcot" of lie Molene, on the coast of Brittany...
Category: Articles
Ferry Founders
Blackpool beach gained a startling new attraction when the cargo ferry Riverdance developed a list and started to drift. All-weather lifeboats from Fleetwood and Lytham St Annes were launched on 31 January in force 10 winds, arriving on...
Category: Articles
A Whitley Bombing Aeroplane (3)
DECEMBER 9TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, CLOVELLY, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON. On the afternoon of the 9th December Padstow No. 1 motor life-boat put out to the help of a Whitley bombing aeroplane which had been reported down in the...
Our Heroes
"Tis a terrible night, and the seas run mountains high, The wind is howling fiercely, with a dark and sullen sky; Eyes are aching and blinded with the driving sleet and rain, And thoughts turn to those who are going out, who may never...
Category: Poetry
Breeze
KINGSDOWNE, KENT.—The brig Breeze, of Blyth, was observed ashore amongst the broken water off the Coastguard Station at 7.15 A.M. on the llth of March.
The Charles Sargrave Life-boat went to her assistance, some of the...
Stretched to breaking point
In near gale force winds, a large crabbing boat lost engine power and was drifting close to an offshore gas rig. Unable to anchor, due to underwater pipelines, she needed a tow to safety
Just...
Category: Articles
Coasteering calamity
19 July: St Davids, Wales A coasteering trip nearly ended in disaster when a 12-year-old girl seriously injured her neck near Porthclais Harbour. The inshore lifeboat crew arrived on scene at noon and gave first...
Category: Articles
lolanda
APRIL 23RD. - TORBAY, DEVON. A motor fishing host, returning to Brixham in the morning, reported that the engine of the fishing boat lolanda had broken down in St. Mary’s Bay. A freshening south-east wind was blowing, and there was a rough...