LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Clovelly Lass
Plymouth, Devon - At 2.25 p.m. on 2nd August, 1966, red flares were reported from a yacht in Cawsand bay. At 2.36 the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse left her moorings. It was three hours after low water. There was a south easterly...
Clytie
Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 1.0 on the after- noon of the 19th of August, 1952, a message was received that the sailing yacht Clytie had gone ashore five hundred yards to the west of the river Clwyd. The owner was advised to put ashore three...
Provider
APRIL 10TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
About 3.30 in the morning the local motor fishing boat Provider went out to haul crab pots. She was the only boat to leave as the weather was threatening. By nine o’clock the conditions at...
Renown and Ceres
LLANAELHAIARN, NORTH WALES.—On the 29th January, the coxswain of the Life-boat observed a schooner which proved to be the Renown, of Swansea, coal laden from Cardiff for Amlwch, in distress, apparently making for Llanaelhaiarn, and knowing...
Faith Star, Pilot Me and Success
Whitby, Yorkshire.—Before daybreak on the 24th of November, 1955, the fishing boats Faith Star, Pilot Me and Success put to sea in worsening weather.
The Faith Star returned to harbourand at noon the no. 2 harbour pulling...
Climbing Crew
Two 12-year-old boys were out exploring the north Devon coastline when they got cut off by the tide 10m up a cliff.
Several passers-by reported the boys’ predicament to the Coastguard, which requested the launch of...
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Mary Holland
On the morning of the j 4th October—a wild, stormy morning, | —the Charley Lloyd Life-boat of this sta- tion put out, and brought from the bri- gantine Mary Holland 7 men. Later on she hrought oh shore from the brig Eliza 5 men, besides a...
Three Aeroplanes
JULY 10TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. Information had been received that three aeroplanes had fallen into the sea. Many the men were away fishing, but a crewwas obtained, and with the help of women the life-boat was launched. At the time an attack...
Georges Edouard
JANUARY 4TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
At 8.45 P.M. the coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore off the York Hotel, Eastbourne. A light N.E. wind was blowing, with a moderately rough sea. The motor life-boat Jane Holland...
Bavaria
Hastings, Sussex - At 9.30 a.m. on 20th September, 1968, the motor mechanic informed the honorary secretary that the crew of three aboard a dredger west of St. Leonards wished to be taken off in view of the deteriorating weather conditions....