LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Three Sisters
FlSHGTTABD, PEMBBOKESHIEB.' In response to a signal of distress hoisted by the smack Three Sisters, of Cardigan, bound from Aberporth to Swansea in ballast, the No. 2 Life-boat Helen of Foxley proceeded to her assistance at 11.30 A.M. on...
Julia
During a strong northerly gale on the 23rd March, the schooner Julia, of Runcorn, which was anchored in the bay owing to stress of weather, com- menced to drag her anchors and drifted into shallow water. Signals of distress were displayed,...
Favourite, of Hastings
JULY 4TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. In the early hours of the morning several fishing boats were overtaken by a violent thunderstorm, and at 2.52 they were reported to be making for Rye harbour, but at 3.15 the coastguard reported that one was...
Surge of commitment
Members of the RNLI’s Flood Rescue Team added to their existing lifeboat and swift-water rescue training commitments by running in the Virgin London Marathon on 25 April, aiming to raise £20,000 and the RNLI’s...
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Provident friends
PENLEE | 29 JUNE
Penlee’s crew were in the throes of their Sunday morning training session when they received the call for help.
Provident, a 1920s former Brixham trawler with 13 people onboard, had...
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CUT OFF BY TIDE: 34 TEENS
4 CUT OFF BY TIDE: 34 TEENS
DOVER/WALMER | 16 JUNE
In a widely publicised rescue, lifeboat crews from Dover and Walmer helped save 34 teenagers and two adults, stranded at the bottom of the cliffs. The group were on a...
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Edna
Plymouth, Devon.—At 12.8 early on the morning of the 2nd of January, 1956, the Yealm coastguard reported that flares had been seen in the direc- tion of Picklecombe and stated that a naval M.F.V. had put out. At 1.55 the Queen's...
Two Boys
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 10.2 on the night of the 30th of August, 1960, the Irish naval authorities at Cobh informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Keizersveer of Amsterdam had an Irish fishing boat intow about a...
Northern Lights, of Preston
On the 29th October, at 8 p.m., the wind blowing a hard gale from west by north, signal lights were observed from Fleetwood, as if from a vessel in a dangerous position near the Bernard's Wharf Sand. The Fleetwood life-boat was at once...
Gondolier Princess and Flying Fish
TWO BOATS TOWED IN A ROUGH SEA Ramsgate, Kent.—At 9.45 on the night of the 21st of August, 1947» the coast- guard telephoned that flares had been seen three-quarters of a mile east-south- east of Kingsgate look-out, and the motor...