LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Blue Bell
Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 4.43 p.m. on 1st May, 1969, a local resident told the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing flares about one mile east of the life-boat station. At 4.54 the life-boat Jesse Lumb slipped her moorings in a...
A Speed Boat and a Dinghy
Aberdovey, Merioneth. At 2.30 p.m. on 9th August, 1964, the Outward Bound Sea School look-out saw a submerged dinghy and a capsized speedboat with one person on board being carried put to sea by the ebbing tide. At 2.35 the inshore rescue...
Northern Star
Newhaven, Sussex - At 6.25 p.m. on I3th August, 1966, a small boat was reported in difficulties just outside the breakwater. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 6.50 in a rough sea and south westerly gale. It was three hours after...
Relief D Class
Relief D class A 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat to be used in the relief fleet was handed over and dedicated on the evening of Wednesday July 17, 1985, at the RNLl's Poole depot. She was the gift of the Ancient Order of Foresters,... - View image in PDF
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APRIL 9TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 4.30 in the afternoon a report was received through the Abergele police and the Rhyl coastguard that people had seen an airman come down by parachute into the sea off...
Fishing Boats (1)
NOVEMBER 24TH. - FILEY, YORK-SHIRE. The motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 12.35 in the afternoon in a strong north-north-west wind, with a rough sea, to the help of the local fishing boats. As most of the regular members of the crew...
Schiedam, of Middlesborough
On the 4th of the following month (December), the brig Schiedam, of Middles- borough, bound from Seaham to South- ampton with coals, foundered at sea off the Yorkshire coast soon after midnight.
The master and crew of 5...
Marie
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 18th of June, 1958, a message was received from Valentia radio station that the trawler Marie of Waterford needed help half a mile west-north-west of the small Tearaght Rock. At 2.30 the...
Sunshine
PORTRUSH.—The brigantine Sunshine, of and from St. John, N.B., laden with timber, arrived off Coleraine Bar on the 4th July and anchored, waiting for a sufficient depth of water to enable her to cross the bar. On the 10th a gale from the N.E...
Secret
WHITBY.—Soon after 10 o'clock on the morning of the 15th January, while a fresh gale was blowing from W.N.W., with a moderately rough sea, it was reported that the coble Secret, which had gone out fishing about two hours previous, had...