LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Polyanna
Fowey, Cornwall. At 2.45 on the after- noon of the 30th July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a motor yacht was aground on Udder Rock. At 2.55, when the life-boat Deneys Reitz left her moorings, the weather was...
Airy Mouse
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 8.15 p.m. on 3rd January, 1964, the duty signalman informed the honorary secretary that red and white flares had been seen on the west coast. There was a gentle southerly breeze with a slight sea, and it was high...
Mer Gaspard
Dover, Kent - At 9 a.m. on 14* April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht, with a crew of four on board, off Shakespeare cliffs had sent up distress flares. The lifeboat Southern Africa left her moorings...
Hermus
Baltimore, Co. Cork - At 7.30 p.m.
on 29th May, 1966, the Hare Island Post Office informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had grounded on a rock between Hare Isle and Cunamur Point (Taylor's Rock). The life-boat...
Whisky Mac
Three rescued from yacht in severe gales The events leading up to Alderney lifeboat' s service to the 23ft yacht Whisky Mac are recounted in the report of St Peter Port lifeboat's Silver Medal service to the yacht Sena Sioria (main...
Rnli Annual Awards for 1973
EACH YEAR particular recognition is given to crew members taking part in conspicuous rescues, and in 1973 the RNLI annual awards were presented to lifeboatmen from Bridlington (Yorkshire), St Helier (Jersey) and Torbay...
Category: Awards
Asia (1)
The Humber, and Bridlington, Yorkshire.
—26th August, 1939. Rockets hadbeen seen, but the life-boats could find nothing. On her way back the Humber life-boat found the small racing yacht Asia, of Brough, which had lost her...
Petan
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 11.54 on the night of the 26th of July, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the Lyn- well lightvessel had reported that a cabin cruiser had burnt a red flare a hundred yards from the lightvessel.
Silver Strand
Islay, Hebrides.—At 9.15 on the morn- ing of the 5th of May, 1957, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that a yacht was ashore on the Black Rock in the Sound of Islay and needed help.
The life-boat Edward Z. Dresden, on...
Lytham-St.Anne's Lifeboat City of Bradford III Shortly Before She Set Out at 1535 on June 6 1981
Lytham-St Anne's lifeboat City of Bradford III shortly before she set out at 1535 on June 6, 1981, to go to the help of the yacht Morag in difficulties off South Shore. Blackpool.
photograph by courtesy of David Forshaw... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs