LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 15 February 1996 show that so far during 1995: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 7,272 times (an average of more than 19 launches a day) 1,630 lives were saved (an average of more than 4 a...
Category: Articles
A Pleasure Boat
The Life-boat George Woofindin was launched at 2.30 P.M. on the 15th April to the assistance of four men in a pleasure boat off Roker. The men had gone out fishing, but when they at- tempted to return they found that the off-shore wind had...
Mary
Clovelly, Devon.—On the morning of the 2nd August the Hartland Point coastguard reported that a yacht appeared to be in distress about four miles east of the point. Her sails had been blown away, and she looked unmanageable. A moderate W.N.W...
A Dinghy (1)
FOUR PEOPLE SAVED BY SPEEDBOAT Swanage, Dorset. At 5.53 on the afternoon of Saturday the 24th August, 1963, the Swanage coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy with four people on board appeared to be in difficulties half a...
Westralia and Heracles
Yachts on a lee shore A YACHT, Westralia, dragging her anchor in Forth Wen Bay and in danger of going on to rocks was reported to the honorary secretary of Moelfre lifeboat station by Cemaes Bay Coastguard at 2009 on August 30, 1975. Maroons...
That sinking feeling
MACDUFF AND BUCKIE | 21 JUNE
A lone skipper triggered an early morning rescue on Father’s Day after snagging a propeller and finding that his vessel had been holed. The boat – a decommissioned trawler...
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Phoenix, Admiral, Mary, James,and Mary Anne
THURSO, N.B.—On the evening of the 7th March, the wind blew a heavy gale here from the N.N.W. to N.W., and the harbour master and Custom House officer at Scrabster were apprehensive that if the sea got heavier as the night advanced, the...
Jezebel
FOUR PEOPLE FOUND ON BEACH St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 12.8 early on the morning of the 4th September, 1962, a bright, flashing light was seen on Jethou, and at 12.25 the life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal put to sea in a moderate south-westerly...
A Ship
The Humber, Yorkshire. — 30th * October, 1939. A ship had been reported on fire, but a later message stated that the survivors of a Danish vessel, believed to have been sunk by enemy action, had been picked up by a Finnish vessel.—Permanent...
Victoire Roger
DETAILS LATER Sennen Cove, Cornwall. The lifeboat Susan Ashley was launched on 24th March, 1964, to help the Belgian trawler Victoire Roger. A full account of the service will appear in the next issue of THE LIFE-BOAT..