LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aircraft
Dover, Kent. At 10.55 on the morning of the 27th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an aircraft had crashed into the sea near the Varne lightvessel and that the pilot had been picked up by the lightvessel's...
Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE by Maggie Murray The ten bronze medallists who received their awards at the 1989 meetings in London pictured aboard the Tyne class lifeboat The Famous Grouse shortly before the ceremony.
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Ruth
Teesmouth, Yorkshire. At 6.10 on the evening of the 13th of December, 1959, the honorary secretary received a message that a man and his young son had not returned to Paddy's Hole as expected from a fishing trip. At 6.48 the life-boat...
Estrellia
On the night of the 17th September a very strong gale was blowing from the S.W., with a very rough sea, rain squalls and a very high tide, and between midnight and eight o'clock the next morning there were three launches ; one by the...
Mary and Jane
— In the evening of the 25th April, whilst the Coxswain and two motor - men were on board the motor Life - boat, James Stevens No. 14, running the engines, they saw a barge—the Mary Jane, of Rochester—apparently in difficulties, with the...
Jeannie Slessor
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At four o'clock in the afternoon on the 23rd of February, 1950, information was re- ceived from St. Combs and the coast- guard that a small fishing boat was in distress. At 4.13 the life-boat John and Charles...
Sonia
Selsey, Sussex.—At about 9.45 A.M.
on the 25th August two men fishing two miles S.W. of Selsey Bill saw signals coming from the motor yacht Sonia, of LittJehampton, which was at anchor near-by. They went to her and found...
Deo Gratias
Ilfracombe, Devon. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 9th of March, 1960, the life-boat Robert and Phemia Brown was launched with the district engineer on board for an engine trial in a moderate easterly wind and a choppy sea. It was...
Havlyn
Holyhead, Anglesey. At 10.26 a.m.
on 2yth November, 1965, the honorary secretary heard that the Norwegian motor vessel Havlyn was in need of assistance, having a forty-five degree list nine miles from the South Stack...
Harry
COURTMACSHERRY, Co. Cork. — The fishing-smack Harry, of Courtmacsherry, while getting under weigh to run for shelter from the roadstead to the pier in a heavy W.S.W. gale, at 3 P.M. on the 17th May, lost one of her anchors. When under weigh...