LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Buccari
JANUARY 9TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 12.45 P.M. a message was received that one of the crew of the Italian steamer Buccari, which was anchored in the Downs, was seriously injured and needed medical attention.
A light easterly...
Havlynd
OCTOBER 22ND. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 12.5 P.M. the coastguard reported that a Norwegian fishing vessel was shewing signals of distress and apparently had broken down. A strong easterly wind was blowing, with a choppy...
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APRIL 9TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 4.30 in the afternoon a report was received through the Abergele police and the Rhyl coastguard that people had seen an airman come down by parachute into the sea off...
The American Steamer George Vickers, of Baltimore
MARCH 26TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE.
At 2.45 in the morning the coastguard reported that the American steamer George Vickers, of Baltimore, was asking for a boat to land two of her crew, who were seriously ill. As no...
Next generation
Charlie Clifford from the west Midlands of England is the RNLI’s second-youngest-ever official supporter, having been signed up as a Storm Force member at just 4 hours old.
Charlie’s family has a long history of...
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Lady Dorothy
NOV. 25TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 3.47 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the sailing barge Lady Dorothy, of Ipswich, had stranded on the Buxey Sands, a quarter of a mile from the Spitway. A fresh S.W. breeze was...
The S.S. Essex Lance
MARCH 13TH - 16TH. - CROMER, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At about 2.35 P.M. information came to Cromer from the coastguard that a vessel, which seemed to be sinking, was about two and a half miles N.W. of Cromer, and was being...
Bendilow
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—The motor life-boat Langham was launched at 11.22 A.M. on the 22nd May, as information had been received through the coastguard that the yacht Bendilow, of Portsmouth, was in a dangerous position near Sandown pier....
Mary
Filey, Yorkshire.—As darkness was gathering on the evening of the 26th of September, 1949, there was some anxiety felt for the safety of the fishing coble Mary which, with a crew of three, had been due in at noon. At 7.25 the life-boat The...
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On 30th July, 1965, at 9.40 a.m. the local doctor requested the use of the lifeboat to take a man who had been seriously injured in a motor cycle accident to hospital. As no other boats were available, the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put...