LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Madge
At about half-past eleven on the night of the 6th August the coastguard reported signals of distress from the direction of the Battery Rocks. The sea was rough with a strong tide running, and a moderate N.N.W. breeze was...
Eligug
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 3.30 in the afternoon, on the 23rd of April, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the police had passed on a message from Strumble Head that a boat was drifting in St. Bride's Bay. At 10.50 that...
Pass-o-Leny (1)
DEC. 1ST. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE, AND NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 8.45 A.M. the Lytham secondcoxswain reported a vessel ashore by Peet’s Light, south of the 12th Mile Beacon. A S.W.
gale was blowing, with a heavy...
Plasma
Kirkcudbright.—On the night of the 20th January, 1938, information was received from the Isle of Whithorn coastguard that a steamer in Port Yerrock Bay appeared to be dragging her anchor in a dangerous position.
A strong...
A Speed Boat
Stromness, Orkneys. At 5.45 p.m.
on igth October, 1965, the honorary secretary informed the coastguard that a man and his son had left Burray in a fifteen-foot speedboat which had been laid up for over a year. At 7.50 the...
John Edward King
John Edward King, coxswain of Bridlington lifeboat from 1965 to 1975 after serving as bowman from 1959 to 1963 and second coxswain from 1963 to1965. He was awarded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum in 1967 and 1969; the...
Category: Obituaries
Called away from Ceremony
Just after the opening ceremony for Exmouth RNLI’s new boathouse, the crews’ pagers went off and guests saw both lifeboats launched on a real rescue.
A catamaran sailor had been injured and was picked up by a passing...
Category: Articles
SWEPT FROM A BREAKWATER
PORTHCAWL | 16 DECEMBER
A fisherman was knocked off his feet and dragged into the sea after a large wave swept over a breakwater. Within minutes the crew of Porthcawl’s inshore lifeboat were on their way, and found him drifting a...
Category: Services
Book Reviews
Another valuable contribution to life-boat history has been made by Grahame Farr in his latest volume in the Wreck and Rescue Series. This tells the story of the South Devon life-boats (Wreck and Rescue on the Coast of Devon, D. Bradford...
Category: Articles
Pausillipo
The schooner Pausillipo, of Ramsey, while on a voyage from Whitehaven with coals, was caught in a gale off Eamsey, and after losing her mainboom, and having her mainsail split, went ashore, in a leaky state, to leeward of the North Pier, on...