LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Buckingham
Filey, Scarborough, and Whitby, Yorkshire.
—During the evening of the 25th February, 1938, the Grimsby trawler Buckingham, with a crew of sixteen on board, ran aground at Newbiggin Wyke, just north of Filey Brig. A moderate...
Halcyon (1)
Walmer, and Ramsgate, Kent.—At 6.45 A.M. on the 27th September, 1939, the Deal coastguard reported a motor barge drifting ashore to the N.E. of their station. A heavy sea was running with a strong easterly wind. At 7.5 A.M., the motor...
Mayfly
TOW FOR CABIN CRUISER WITH CREW SEASICK Cromer, Norfolk. During the afternoon of the 29th May, 1962, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a message had been received from Sheringham that a cabin cruiser southward bound was flying...
Sea Rescue: a Bird's-Eye View By Des Lavelle
LURCHING ABOUT on the deck of Valentia lifeboat, struggling to make sense of a simple piece of chartwork, it was shattering to hear the smooth delivery of the necessary accurate information over the radio from the Nimrod aircraft overhead....
Category: Articles
Lord Saltoun's Retirement
LORD SALTOUN, M.C., has retired from the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I. Of his work for the life-boat service, the Duke of Atholl, the Convenor of the Scottish Life-boat Council, writes: By the resignation of Lord Saltoun the...
Category: Committee
Features
spIRIt Storyteller, boatman and hero Anglesey has seen more than its fair share of difficult rescues. Carol Waterkeyn hears how Margaret O’Leary’s grandfather played a pivotal role This year marks the 80th anniversary of an outstanding...
Category: Articles
In This Issue
News All the latest from and about the lifeboat service Letter Feature Just like the real thing Can serious training really be this exciting? Lifeboats in action Including medal winning rescues by Plymouth and Alderney lifeboat crews Feature...
Category: Contents
Mary, of North Shields
On the same day a very severe gale was experienced here, accompanied by a tremendous sea. About noon a vessel, which proved to be the schooner Mary, of North Shields, was seen inside the buoy off the Filey Brigg. She was dismasted and...
Tunnel vision
St Abbs crew trusted each other with their lives in an outstandingly gallant rescue
‘This was something you can’t train for and something we’d never seen before. The decisions we made had to be...
Category: Articles
Lans (1)
Cliff face helicopter lift LONOHOPE honorary secretary was informed by the Coastguard at 2352 on December 20, 1974, that the Belgian trawler Lans was ashore on the north side of Tor Ness and required immediate assistance. Longhope lifeboat,...