LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dog Tired
Word came on 7 April that a dog was in trouble off Dynamite quay, St Ives – and that a man was about to try to rescue it. The tide was rushing out of the estuary, making any such attempt by a swimmer extremely dangerous. When the D class...
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Mountbatten of Burma
ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, who was killed in his motor yacht while on holiday last August, will be remembered, as is his wife, the Countess Mountbatten, as a very good friend of the lifeboat...
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Yacht Surprise
On the 13th June two men on board the steam yacht Surprise, of Jersey, which was lying at anchor in the roads, were severely scalded by the bursting of a steam-pipe. The motor life-boat Hearts of Oak put out at 11.15 A.M. A moderate S.W....
Teymar (2)
Eleven lifeboats in biggest ever Cardigan Bay searchCrew from nine lifeboat stations were united in a search for a missing power boat at Cardigan Bay. The Coastguard coordinated an extensive search involving 11 lifeboats, a rescue helicopter...
Marie May (1)
Hythe and Dungeness (Kent).
At 6.30 in the evening of llth November, with a 70-mile an hour gale blowing from the S.W., a very heavy sea running, and poor visibility on account of heavy rain, the Coxswain at Hythe received...
Mary Birch, of Hull
The Humber, Yorkshire. — On the night of the 10th March a fog settled,but shortly before midnight it lifted a little and the life-boat watchman saw a vessel ashore on the Inner Binks.
The motor life-boat City of Bradford II...
Sudoria
Walmer, Kent.—At 6.51 on the even- ing of the 15th of May, 1951, the Deal coastguard telephoned that a yacht had broken down one mile north-east of the South Goodwin lightvessel and was drifting towards the Goodwin Sands. A small boat could...
A Small Open Pulling Boat
MAY 1ST. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
At about 1.20 P.M. the coastguard reported a small open pulling boat about two and a half miles from the look-out, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at 1.30 P.M. A...
A Fishing Boat
Fishing party DUNGENESS LIFEBOAT, the 37ft 6in Rother Alice Upjohn, had launched on exercise on Thursday March 8 and was close to her station when, at 1700, two local fishermen on shore were seen waving. Second Coxswain Peter Thomas, in...
Begonia
At about 9 P.M. on the 4th March the Coxswain of the Life-boat observed a vessel in the vicinity of the " Sow and Pigs" rocks, and about half-an-hour later she made signals indicating that something was wrong. The assembly signal...