LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Rowing Boat
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 7 P.M. on the 3rd August the coxswain saw from the North Pier a small rowing boat about a mile out in the direction of the Newcome Sands. The weather was squally, with a W.N.W. wind and a choppy...
Reginam, James and Orbe
On the same day, during a very strong N.E. gale, with a heavy sea, the Skegness Life-boat, Her- bert Ingram, rendered valuable service to distressed vessels and their crews. In the first instance a flag of distress was seen from a passing...
A Motor Boat (1)
The Humber, Yorkshire.—30th May.
A motor boat had run aground at Cowden, but the crew got ashore.—- Permanent paid crew ; Rewards, 15s..
A Small Sailing Yacht
APRIL 27TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A small sailing yacht had gone ashore south-east of Donna Nook, but her crew got ashore. - Paid permanent crew..
Rescue from Cliff In Full Gale
AT 11.10 p.m. on the night of Saturday I4th September, 1963, Mr. R. Watt, the honorary secretary of the Mallaig life-boat station, learnt from the police that a number of people were trapped on a cliff in Loch Duich. A quarter of an hour...
Category: Services
A Yacht and a Motor Boat
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
A Converted Ship's Boat
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 2nd of August, 1959, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that he had been keeping a converted ship's boat under observation for some time as she was...
A Rubber Mattress
Margate, Kent. At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 4th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a rubber mattress with one person on it was drifting out to sea near the Hook Sands beacon. The life- boat North Foreland...
A Rowing Boat (3)
AUG. 1ST. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
Three men, visitors to Moelfre, who were out in a rowing boat, got into difficulties in the strong tide. They signalled for help. The weather was fine, with a moderate S.W. wind and a slight...
A Rescue on the Cornish Cliffs
THE Institution has awarded its Thanks inscribed on Vellum and a monetary reward to Mr. J. Curtis, a fisherman of Polperro, Cornwall, for his gallantry in rescuing a shipwrecked man by climbing down the cliffs to him. in circumstances of...
Category: Awards