LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Phryne
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—A message was received from the coastguard at 8 A.M. on the 24th September, 1939, that a steamer was sinking through enemy action, three or four miles E. by N. from the look-out. A N.W.
breeze was...
Norman
Save Our Pot Plants Margate's Mersey class lifeboat Leonard Kent was called to another sinking incident in the South East Division, this time on Boxing Day 1992.
The elderly 35ft motor cruiser Norman, with three people...
Emily
On the 7th August in fine weather the Coastguard reported that a fishing-boat was aground on the South Scroby Shoal, and the Life-boat John Burch was launched. On reaching the vessel, which proved to be the Emily, of Yarmouth, the Coxswain...
Life-boats at Dunkirk
Nineteen of the Institution’s life-boats helped to bring off men of the British Expeditionary Force and the French Army from the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940. Two of these life-boats, Ramsgate and Margate, were manned by their own crews. They...
Category: Services
Stephens, Lady Jane and Queen Mab
MOTOR BOATS IN TROUBLE At 11.55 a-m- on 26th September, 1965, the east pier watchman fired maroons when he saw the motor boat Champion, which was towing the motor boat Stephens, foul the east pier throwing two men overboard. The life-boat...
Blizzard Did Not Deter
ADDITIONAL monetary awards have been paid to the crew of the Courtmacsherry' Co. Cork, life-boat for the service they undertook to the French trawler Obelix on 18th February, 1969, in the worst local weather for...
Category: Services
End of season drama
It was approaching the last hour of duty for lifeguards at Pendine, Carmarthenshire, but they wouldn't be hanging up their wetsuits for the year just yet.
On 5 September 2010 John O’Boyle, James Shuttleworth and Matt...
Category: Articles
Island Aruns: Naming Ceremonies at Port St.Mary Isle of Man July 21 and Yarmouth Isle of Wight July 24
A LIFEBOAT NAMING CEREMONY is always a happy occasion for a station, its supporters, and, indeed, the whole local community, but that at Port St Mary, Isle of Man, had a particularly pleasurable aspect. For while the RNLI has many lifeboats...
Category: Inaugurations
Kerroch
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—The motor life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched at 5.30 P.M. on the 17th February, 1938, on a message from the coastguard that they had seen a schooner drift ashore west of Shoreham.
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A Dinghy (10)
Humber, Yorkshire. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 11th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a small dinghy with four people on board was in difficulties at the mouth of the...