LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Canoe
ALL-NIGHT SEARCH FOR DRIFTING CANOE Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 7.50 on the evening of the 2nd June, 1963, the Fleetwood coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man and an eleven-year-old girl in a canoe had drifted out of sight off...
A Sloop Yacht
Propeller fouled A SMALL YACHT reported to HM Coastguard by VHP radio on the evening of Saturday October 7, 1978, that a 28ft sloop on passage from Penarth to Porlock Weir was broken down and drifting in Porlock Bay; she required immediate...
Obituaries
January, 1986 Walter Groombridge, who for many years was station administration officer and deputy launching authority of Brighton lifeboat station. At a ceremony in June the Newhaven, Shoreham and Brighton lifeboats gathered in Brighton for...
Category: Obituaries
Hon Secretaries' Courses Under Way
WALES AND THE WEST COUNTRY S6t the ball rolling in June when around a dozen station honorary secretaries from those areas attended the first training course aimed specifically at their role within the RNLI.
Training officer...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Balmoral
HARTLEPOOL.—On the 4th January, at about 6 A.M., the s.s. Balmoral, of London, ran ashore on the North Sands, off Hartlepool, at half-ebb tide. At low water she was high and dry; but when the tide rose the wind and sea began to make. At...
Paul Boyton
RAMSGATE AND NORTH DEAL.—On the 20th September, at about 12.30 A.M., the ship Paul Boyton, of Yarmouth, N.S., 1097 tons, bound from Baltimore to Hamburg with a cargo of maize, went ashore on the Goodwin Sands during a fresh wind from the W....
Moelfre Rose
SEPTEMBER 19TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 6.40 in the evening the Tara coastguard reported a steamer on the Long Rock, at South Rock, and the motor lifeboat Herbert John was launched at 7.8 P.M.
The coxswain was asked to...
Svea
Exhausted crew saved at Aldeburgh After 25 hours at sea, the crew of two on the yacht Svea were in real trouble in rough seas near Aldeburgh. The yacht's sails had blown out and the radio was not working. When the Aldeburgh Mersey class...
Agnes
At daybreak on the morning of the 28th October, a vessel was seen stranded amongst the breakers about a mile to the eastward of this port.
The Lossiemouth life-boat was at once launched and pulled through a very heavy sea...
Elizabeth and Catherine
NEW ROMNEY.—On the 30th March, during a N. wind, and a heavy ground sea, rockets were fired from a vessel close to the beach, near the Life-boat station.
The Dr. Hatton Life-boat was launched, and boarded the vessel, which...