LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Askadel
Dunbar, East Lothian. At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 18th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a yacht had been seen trying to make harbour. A westerly gale was blowing with a rough sea. At 1.50 the life-boat...
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Girls trapped A POLICE message on May 1 told the Newquay, Cornwall, ILB that four people were stranded on rocks on the north side of Zacrys Island.
The maroons were fired at 4.26 p.m.
Wind was north...
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Dunbar, East Lothian. — At eight o'clock on the evening of the 18th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up the coxswain to say that the police had reported that three people and a dog were cut off by the tide half a mile west of Dunbar....
James Lay
JANUARY 1 4TH. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
About 10.30 at night the Saltburn coastguard reported a message from the police at Marske that a vessel was ashore here. A light westerly wind was blowing and the sea was smooth. The...
Bronze for Lochinver coxswain
Remember our rescue story in Spring 2015, reporting how Lochinver and Thurso crews aided a fish carrier during a 13-hour rescue in a gale? Now the Lochinver Coxswain, David MacAskill (above right), is to be awarded an RNLI Bronze Medal for...
Category: Articles
Canterbury Bell
On the morning of the 22nd April the ketch Canterbury Bell, of Plymouth, bound from Dublin for Portmadoc with wheat, was seen stranded on the causeway about eight miles from the bar. The Barmouth Life-boat Jones Oibb proceeded to her...
Fishing Boats
Filey, Yorkshire.—At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 25th of October, 1954, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that a strong westerly wind was blowing and there was a heavy swell. Local fishing boats were at sea, and at 11.34 the...
Mina
The Life-boat and steam-tug also proceeded out at 6.15 A.M. on the 13th November to the aid of the barque Mina, of Kalmar, Sweden, bound from Shields to St. Vincent with coal, which had gone ashore on the Brake Sand during a fresh E.S.E....
Ingrid
Rhyl, Flintshire - At 6.2jp.m. onzoth August, 1966, an aircraft had reported a small boat making distress signals about two miles west of the life-boat house. The life-boat Lucy Lovers, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 6.30...
William Miles
POBTHOAWI, SOUTH WALES.—The barque William, Miles, of London, bound from Havre to Swansea in ballast, stranded about half a mile east of Porthcawl, during a W.N.W. wind and a rough sea, at midnight on the 9ih August. She exhibited signals of...