LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hasty Lady
Engine failure THERE WAS A northerly near gale, force 7, blowing and a rough sea when the relief 47ft Watson class lifeboat, T.G.B., on temporary duty at Lowestoft, left her mooring at 1832 on the evening of Friday October 5, 1984. She was...
Rock City
ALDBOROUGH.—Signal guns having been fired from the Shipwash Sands on the 8th April during a strong N.N.W. wind, increasing to a gate, very squally weather and a heavy sea, the Life-boat George Hounsfidd was promptly launched at 12.30 P.M....
Hoku Paa
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 1.6 p.m.
on 6th December, 1969, the coastguard told the coxswain of the lifeboat that a catamaran appeared to be adrift and in difficulties north of Skerries. Eventually the life-boat St. Cybi (Civil...
Stan Woolaway
Appledore, North Devon and Lifeboat 70-001 - Off the Mumbles - At 4.20 p.m. on I3th March, 1967, the Appledore coxswain was informed that the m.v. Stan Woolaway had a bad list and was thought to be sinking at Mort Point. An R T message...
Camelia
Aberystwyth, and New Quay, Cardigan- shire.—At 8.45 on the morning of the 17th of April, 1957, the Outward Bound Sea School's ketch Golden Valley left Aberystwyth for New Quay, towing the fifty-feet fishing boat Camelia, of New Quay. At...
Kindly Light and Mercury
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 3.35 on the afternoon of the 27th May, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that anxiety was felt for the safety of two local boats which had taken parties of visitors to the...
By Land and Sea
John Dewar and Loren Sutherland from the small island of Burray (one of the Orkney Islands) decided to raise funds for the RNLI and between them topped £1,000 in sponsorship money.
John swam from the neighbouring... - View image in PDF
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Mermaid
Coverack, Cornwall. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 26th November, 1961, the coxswain received a message from a resident of St. Keverne that a motor boat appeared to be in distress off the Manacles. The life-boat William Taylor of Oldham was...
Try
Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 10.20 a.m. on 13th October, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat had fired red flares two miles off the harbour.
At 10.39 the life-boat Tynesider was launched in...
Glide
At about 4.45 P.M. on the 8th January a flare was observed E.N.E. of the Harbour from a schooner riding about a mile off.
The Life-boat crew were summoned and the Life-boat Mary Isabella was quickly alongside the schooner,...