LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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It’s always difficult to choose which rescues to feature in Lifeboat magazine. With an average of 23 people rescued a day, there’s a lot of courage and determination to choose from
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Category: Articles
Saint Kentigern
Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 7.10 on the morning of the 16th of January, 1955, the Ramsey coastguard reported that the motor vessel Saint Kentigern, of Glasgow, had sent a distress message.
He later gave her position as five...
A Sailing Boat (1)
Salcombe, Devon. At 11.50 on the morning of the 2nd of September, 1958, the coastguard at Bolt Head informed the honorary secretary that a sailing boat had capsized half a mile south- west of Steeple Cove look-out hut and that two people...
Jellicoe Rose
FEBRUARY 6TH and 9TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL. At 8.40 at night the coastguard telephoned that red rockets had been fired by a vessel three miles north-west of St.
Agnes Head, and the motor life-boat Caroline Oates Aver and...
Hadiotis
At 10.30 A.M. on the 20th | May the Coastguard reported that the i Cockle Lightvessel was firing warning ; guns. A little later the St. Nicholas i Lightvessel also fired, and it was decided to send out the Motor Life-boat...
Aldeburgh's New Boathouse
Aldeburgh's new boathouse was designed to be modern yet relied the style and shape of the older buildings on the seafront.
Although it provoked some controversy when first erected it has met with a mostly favourable... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Will Everard
Dungeness, Kent.—At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 21st of October, 1955, a man reported that a barge was burn- ing red flares about one and a half miles north-east of the life-boat station.
Ten minutes later the Lade...
Lady Alicia
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of June, 1958, a man who had been watching a cabin cruiser rolling appar- ently out of control one mile south-west of Birnbeck Island told the police that red...
Audrey
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At about 3 P.M. on the 23rd October, 1937, the coastguard reported that a barge was in a very dangerous position south of Wellington pier. A S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a very rough...