LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sarah Jane
Beaumaris, Anglesey - At 9.56 p.m.
on 21st September, 1969, the coastguard at Penmau informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was in difficulties at Moil-y- Don. At 10.30 the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs....
Golden Years
Drifting on to lee shore WITH WINDS OF STORM FORCE 10 tO 11 and a very heavy sea starting to break over the harbour wall, Acting Coxswain Thomas Devenny had set watch at Troon lifeboat store on the morning of Thursday October 18, 1984. At...
With Thanks...
Nine-year-old Jennifer Stone of Onchan, Isle of Man, was determined to say 'thank you' to members of the Douglas lifeboat crew who rescued her last year when she and her uncle were cut off by the tide when walking along the shoreline... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services by Shore-Boats
DRUMMORE, WIGTOWNSHIRE. During the afternoon of the 14th November, 1938, the steamer Ben May sprang a leak and sank in East Tarbert Bay. Her crew of live took to the ship’s boat, and at the request of the coastguard, three men put out in a...
Category: Services
Jean Edmonds
FEB. 22ND. - LERWICK, SHETLAND.
At 10.45 A.M. a message was received from a trawler agent and the coastguard that the trawler Jean Edmonds, of Aberdeen, had broken down with boiler trouble, and had asked for the life-boat....
An American Fortress Aeroplane (4)
JUNE 12TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 9.15 in the morning the coastguard reported that an American Fortress aeroplane had crashed in the sea to the south-east. The life-boatmen had already seen a parachute coming down. A light westerly wind was...
A Dinghy (1)
AUGUST 31ST. - MINEHEAD, SOMERSET.
At 5.40 in the afternoon the commanding officer of a local army unit reported that one of his officers, and a bombardier, had gone out for a sail in a dinghy, but appeared to be in...
Coya, of Greenock
JULY 30TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
At 5.20 in the afternoon the coastguard reported a sailing yacht making heavy weather. Thirty-five minutes later they reported that she appeared to be showing a distress signal. A...
13 Lives Rescued at Ramsey.
The bronze medal foi gallantry has been awarded to Coxswain John Cornish, of Ramsey, Isle of Man, and its thanks on vellum to the acting motor mechanic, for rescuing thirteen lives from an Aberdeen trawler which had gone ashore in a Tery...
Category: Articles
Sailing in memory
Friends of Andrew Bridge, the 21-year-old skipper of the lost yacht Cheeki Rafiki, set sail in his memory in August to raise money for the RNLI.
The trio took part in the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race. Despite...
Category: Articles