LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (14)
MAY 1 3TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At about 4.45 P.M. information was received that an aeroplane had come down in the sea off Blakeney Point. The weather was fine with a strong S.W. breeze and a choppy sea. An exercise of...
An American Tank Landing Craft
OCTOBER 13TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
Late in the afternoon an American tank landing craft, manned by about a dozen British naval men, had got into difficulties off the Chesil Beach in a heavy south-west gale, with a very rough...
Britisher
JANUARY 16TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 1.15 P.M. it was reported that a barge, disabled and burning distress flares, was driving towards the Newcome Sands.
A whole N.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy...
Ability
NOVEMBER 18TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 3.46 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a small vessel had been blown up two miles S.S.E. from Clacton Pier. A light W.S.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. At 4 P.M....
Twin Saints
Lifeboats from the Channel Islands often cooperate with their French counterparts – rescue boats from the Société Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer (SNSM). The special relationship between the RNLI station at St Helier and the SNSM...
Category: Articles
New RNLI award
Lifeguards Nick Dowrick, Gareth Howarth, Tom Burgess and Emma Williams are to be presented with the inaugural Alison Saunders’ Lifeguarding Award this Summer.
The new annual award is for the most meritorious rescue by RNLI...
Category: Articles
Our Need
AUGUST 24TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At about 7.30 P.M . the fishing smack Our Need, of Lowestoft, owned by a salvage firm and bound light from Lowestoft to Oban, with a crew of four, ran aground on the rocks about half a...
Dulcebella
In the fourth case the interval between the two services was rather longer. On 17th April, 1922, the cutter Dulcebella, of Westcliff, with six people on board, ran aground on the Maplin Sands in a strong N.N.E. gale with a heavy...
Catriona
Skegness, Lincolnshire. — At 8.36 on the night of the 7th of October, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the Lynn Well lightvessel had reported that flares had been seen five to six miles north-by-east of her. The sea was smooth, the wind...
Fuchsia
On the 28th of the same month, the schooner Fuchsia, of Goole, from. Castlehill to South Shields, being in danger on a lee shore, with an E.N.E. gale blowing, the Life-boat proceeded off to her against a heavy sea, and succeeded in rescuing...