LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Belvoir
LOST HER SAILS At 11.27 a-m- on 7th October, 1964, the east pier watchman told the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties off Dumpton Gap and she was firing flares. The sea was very rough with a strong south-westerly gale...
Devotion
Anstruther, Fifeshire, and Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 7.34 on the evening of the 27th of January, 1959, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary at Anstruther that the fishing boat Devotion of Kirkcaldy was on fire about a mile and...
Holy Wath
At about 1.30 A.M. on the 28th October,- during a strong E.S.E. gale, signals of distress were exhibited on a vessel which was riding in the bay. The Life-boat Mary Isabella was launched in a very rough sea with the assistance of the...
A Sailing Dinghy
Ramsgate, Kent - At 6.3 p.m. on 12th June, 1968, while the life-boat was on exercise, the coastguard informed the crew that a sailing dinghy with three people on board had capsized in Pegwell bay. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis went to...
The Estonian Yacht Tuuneki
Portrush, Co. Antrim; Donaghadee, Co.
Down.— 25th October, 1937. The Estonian yacht Tuuneki, manned by an Estonian and his wife, who were makinga honeymoon tour to various countries, had got into difficulties off Torr Head...
Francoise Delille and the U.S. Motor Vessel American Builder
Holyhead, Anglesey and Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 6 a.m. on 20th December, 1963, the coastguard informed the Porthdinllaen honorary secretary thata French fishingvesselwas leaking badly thirty miles west of Bardsey...
Round the clock
The Operations Room is hidden away at the top of the charity’s Headquarters building, but it is the nerve centre of the whole RNLI
Until refurbishment in 2008, the walls of this unusual office were lined with whiteboards...
Category: Articles
Alexandra
ASHORE IN A THICK FOG North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 7.20 on the morning of the 15th of August, 1947, the Seahouses coast- guard reported that a tug was ashore on Bush Rock, and that three women and two boys had been taken off by...
A Motor Boat From H.M.S. Conway
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 3.48 in the afternoon of the 14th of June, 1952, the Wallasey Corporation vessel Royal Iris wirelessed that she had seen smoke signals from a motor boat on the Burbo Bank, about t-wo miles west-north-west of Burbo...
Respect
At 4.20 on the afternoon of 15th December the Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Lizzie Porter was launched in charge of the Second Coxswain, as the fishing boat Respect, of Seahouses, manned by the'Life-boat Coxswain and three other men, had...