LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
M.V. Robert
Coal cargo shifts THE CREW of Clovelly lifeboat, the 71' Clyde Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35), at anchor in Lundy Roads at 1125 on Tuesday, January 21, sighted MV Robert and saw that she had a 30° list to starboard. As...
Bountiful (1)
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...
An Aeroplane (59)
AUGUST 13TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At 7 A.M. warning was received from the coastguard of an impending air fight. The wind was N.W. and moderate, with a smooth to moderate sea. At 12.15 P.M. an aeroplane was reported down off...
Gruelling Shift
Mallaig lifeboat crew endured a 10-hour shout in horrendous conditions to save the 1,300-tonne coaster Red Duchess off the Isle of Rum, a small island of the Inner Hebrides, on 2 November.
Coxswain Michael Ian Currie says:...
Category: Articles
A Canoe
Exhausted canoeist WHILE ON EXERCISE at 1615 on Friday, June 20, Port Talbot ILB crew saw people on the tip of the breakwater who were indicating that someone was in distress in the heavy surf on its seaward side. There was a fresh...
None (4)
At 2005 information was received that Scarborough lifeboat was launching to investigate red flares sighted by Flamborough Coastguard and at 2240 Filey lifeboat was requested by Tees Coastguard to launch to join Whitby and Scarborough...
Endeavour III
PROPELLER TROUBLE Caister, Norfolk. At 8.50 a.m. on i6th October, 1963, the police told the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was flying distress signals off Caister. The life-boat motor mechanic, who was in the boat-house, confirmed...
A Sailing Dinghy (3)
Falmouth, Cornwall. At 12.8 p.m.
on 8th September, 1965, the coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy was in difficulties three miles off Porthbear Beach. There was a gale from the northwest with a rough sea. It was one...
A Crashed Firefly Aeroplane
Penlee, Cornwall.—About 3.18 in the afternoon of the 19th of September, 1949, the Penzer Point coastguard tele- phoned that Culdrose Air Station had reported a crashed Firefly aeroplane, three miles south of Penzer Point. A Sea Otter rescue...
Mary Jane
About 8.15 P.M.
on the 8th September, the schooner Mary Jane, of Lancaster, made signals of distress. For two days she had been lying at anchor near Puffin Island in an unsuitable berth, and on the 8th the S.W. wind...