LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lans
Cliff face helicopter lift LONOHOPE honorary secretary was informed by the Coastguard at 2352 on December 20, 1974, that the Belgian trawler Lans was ashore on the north side of Tor Ness and required immediate assistance. Longhope lifeboat,...
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Newhaven, Sussex.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 14th of August, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that two people were cut off by the tide three hundred yards east of Splash Point, Seaford. Eight minutes later the life-boat Cecil...
Sanantonias
DOCTOR TO TRAWLER Padstow, Cornwall. At 12.35 a.m. on 3rd March, 1965, the honorary secretary was asked by Ilfracombe radio station to take a doctor out to the Belgian trawler Sanantonias to attend to two injured men.
At...
Naming Ceremonies: Falmouth Tynemouth Campbeltown Holyhead and Harwich
Elizabeth Ann, Falmouth EXACTLY AT 2.30 pm on Tuesday June 10, two RNAS Culdrose helicopters streaming RNLI flags flew past the Customs House Quay, Falmouth, thus raising the curtain on the first of the 1980 lifeboat naming...
Category: Inaugurations
A Difficult Launch at Exmouth
At 5.30 in the morning of 15th January, 1938, the life-boat station at Exmouth, Devon, was informed that rockets had been seen off Lyme Regis, and it was decided to launch the motor life-boat Catherine Harriet Eaton. A gale was blowing from...
Category: Services
Milos
ESCORT FOR GERMAN COASTER IN TOW Arklow, Co. Wicklow. At 5.50 on the morning of the 14th February, 1963, the naval base at Haulbowline informed the honorary secretary that the steering gear of the coaster Milos of Bremen had broken down off...
Sailing Dinghies
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At approximately 4.17 p.m. on 30th August, 1965, while the honorary secretary was watching a dinghy race, a sailing dinghy was capsized by a squall and her two occupants thrown into the water. The sailing club...
'Send help'
When holidaymakers got trapped between cliffs and 2m waves with no way of calling the Coastguard, could anyone help them escape?
‘This was another idyllic sunny day so we headed out for a...
Category: Articles
Alderman J. G. Oldfield, J.P., of Whitehaven
ALDERMAN J. G. OLDFIELD, of White- haven, Cumberland, who died on 8th May at the age of eighty, was for thirty- five years of his life the Honorary Secre- tary of the Whitehaven Life-boat Station. He found time for this work in the midst of...
Category: Obituaries
Cragoswald
The steamer Cragoswald, of Newcastle, whilst bound from Barry to Venice with a cargo of coal, and carrying twenty-seven hands, stranded on the Low Lee Rock in Mount's Bay, in fine weather on the 29th April. The Life-boat Elizabeth and...