LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Flora
At 11 A.M. on the 7th August, daring a fresh wind from the N., signals of distress were shown from a vessel on the Hasborough Sands, in reply to which the 'same Life-beat was promptly launched, and found that the vessel was tie...
The S.S. Ubari
Southend - on - Sea, Essex. — On the afternoon of the 21st January a report was received from the watchman at the pierhead that a small steamer was ashore on the Nore Sands. A very squally wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor...
A Skiff
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 5.30 p.m. on i8th August, 1964, the bowman told the honorary secretary that a skiff was in a dangerous position in broken water near Hayle Bar. At 5.32 the inshore rescue boat launched in a fresh westerly breeze and...
Tying the knot
Jenny and Paul Jobling became the first couple to celebrate their wedding at the Lifeboat College on Saturday 17 October.
The college has been granted a licence to hold marriage and civil partnership ceremonies, and can...
Category: Articles
Peterborough Trader, of London
FEBRUARY 3RD. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At four in the afternoon the coxswain saw a vessel putting up distress rockets about two miles east-south-east of Peterhead, and at 4.25 the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of...
Launcher Will Soon Be 100
Mr. George Carey, of Speldhurst, near Tunbridge Wells, Kent, who was a launcher at the old Littlestone life-boat station between 1889 and 1895, will be 100 on 27th October, 1968.
It is recalled that, with his brother who...
Category: Articles
Fiducia
At 5.20 P.M.
on the 19th February, a schooner was observed aground on the Bell Buoy shoal. There was a moderate southerly gale at the time and the sea was heavy.
The Life-boat John Burch was therefore...
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Torbay, Devon. — At 6.40 in the evening of the 26th of June, 1952, the police telephoned for the help of the life-boat for a woman, marooned on a rock off Mansands. She had had a heart attack. With the bowman in charge of a scratch crew the...
Lone Star
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 19th of June, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Lone Star, with one man on board, was twenty-four hours overdue from...
A Fishing Boat
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 10.30 on the night of the 20th of August, 1958, the police reported that two fishermen were overdue and that flames had been seen from Cobo Bay in a north-westerly direction. At 10.45 the life-boat Euphrosyne...