LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pioneer
Shortly after midnight on the 19th March, during very rough weather, the schooner Pioneer, of Peterhead,came into the South Bay and anchored. As it was feared that her anchors might drag, a close watch was kept upon her. At about 5.30 A.M. a...
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Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 13th of November, 1954, the police reported that a message had been received from the R.S.P.C.A. asking if the life-boat would put out to a heifer which had fallen over a cliff into Dulas...
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FOUR BOYS FOUND CUT OFF BY TIDE Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 11.22 on the night of the 31st July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four boys were missing from a camp at Culver and that it was thought they might have...
Mirror Image
Crewman steers yacht to place of safetyThere is no such thing as a routine job for lifeboat crews. When the Campbeltown lifeboat was called out on 1 October 2000, it was simply to escort a troubled yacht to the safety of Carnpbeltown Loch....
Ciris
At 11.28 p.m. on 21st September, 1969, the coastguard reported that red flares had been seen in the direction of Swadman buoy and Holy Island. At 11.38 the life-boat TheEdward and Mary Lester was launched in a westerly gale with a rough sea....
Marigold
Early on the 14th February, three local fishing boats put out to fish off Brims Ness.
At 8 A.M. a sudden N.E. gale broke, with heavy snow and sleet. The sea was very rough. As the boats were on a lee shore it was decided to...
Dawn Wind
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 6.45 P.M. on the 12th July the Cliff End coastguard reported that a disabled motor yacht was at anchor in the entrance to Christchurch harbour, and was in danger of drifting ashore. A moderate S.S.W. gale was...
Peaceful Retirement
On the beach at Deal. Thomas Cribben, second-coxswain of the Deal life-boat from 1921 until the station was closed in October 1932.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Small Pulling Boat
Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 8.50, on the evening of the 29th of August, 1950, it was learned that a small pulling boat from Caol Ha Distillery had been carried south through the Sound of Islay and would be unable to return against the tide....
Mornington, Susannah and Iris
LOWESTOFT.—During a heavy gale from the N.E., on the 28th October, several shipwrecks, with loss of life, took place off Lowestoft. At about 11 P.M. the Samuel Plimsoll Life-boat, after much regrettable delay and difficulty, was launched and...