LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M. Cable Ship Iris
Ilfracombe, Devon - At 5.50 p.m. on 22nd July, 1967, information was received that a message had come in from H.M.
cable ship Iris requesting medical advice for a sick man on board. Arrangements were made for a doctor to be...
Vaapiti
At 8.8 p.m. on 6th July, 1969, the coastguard told the second coxswain that a yacht was firing red flares one mile south of Anvil point lighthouse.
At 8.20 the life-boat R.L.P. was launched in a near gale force north...
Margaret
Nov. 16TH. - MINEHEAD, SOMERSET.
The motor fishing boat Margaret, which had gone to sea at daybreak, had not returned by 12.30 P.M. and anxiety was felt for her safety. A W.S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. At 1.10 P...
An Aeroplane (153)
OCTOBER 16TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 5.30 A.M. messages were received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had caught fire and crashed into the sea a quarter of a mile off Happisburgh Beach, and at 5.46 A.M. the No. 1 motor...
Four Admiralty Trawlers
DECEMBER 8TH. - MONTROSE, ANGUS.
At 5.15 in the evening the coastguard at Usan reported that four Admiralty trawlers were being bombed by enemy aeroplanes two miles to the S.E., and the motor life-boat The Good Hope put out...
Sven Knud
SEPTEMBER 21ST. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 6.30 in the evening the coastguard telephoned that a vessel, one and a half miles N.E. of Kinnaird Head, was flying a distress signal. A N.W. gale was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor...
Peterborough Trader, of London
FEBRUARY 3RD. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At four in the afternoon the coxswain saw a vessel putting up distress rockets about two miles east-south-east of Peterhead, and at 4.25 the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of...
River Ythan
AUGUST 11TH. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
At 11 P.M. the naval officer in command asked for the life-boat to go out to a vessel aground on Pilling Sands. She was the trawler River Ythan, of Fleetwood, loaded with fish and...
Brew for the Crew
You really can’t beat a nice cup of tea, and now you can support the RNLI’s volunteer lifeboat crews and lifeguards simply by putting the kettle on and having a Brew for the Crew!
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Ros Ceaion
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 5th of September, 1960, a Mayday message was received from Valentia radio station that the fishing vessel Ros Ceaion was adrift in Blasket Sound and needed help. There was a moderate...