LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boatman's Statuette
old Cork Life-belt) of the figure of the Life-boatman which stands on the memorial at Margate to the nine Life-boatmen who were drowned by the capsizing of the surf boat Friend of All Nations, in December, 1897, when going out to the rescue...
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High Stakes
For generations, people have been tombstoning off cliffs. On 22 July last year, five boys ignored warnings and jumped into treacherous waters
Towards the end of a long day’s work on Portreath Beach, Cornwall, Senior...
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A Dinghy (3)
Skegness, Lincolnshire - At 1.37 p.m.
on 29th August, 1969, the coastguard reported that a dinghy had fired a red flare about one mile east of Skegness pier. The life-boat Charles Fred Grantham was launched at 2 o'clock...
Guiding Light
Arklow, Co. Wicldow.—At five o'clock on the evening of the 1st of December, 1950, distress signals were seen three miles north of Arklow Harbour. Five minutes later the life-boat Inbhear Mor was launched in a very rough sea with a...
Seven Brothers
Dur- ing snowstorms and very cold weather, on the morning of the 16th January, signals of distress were observed off Benar Point, the Life-boat crew were immediately assembled and the Life-boat Oldham proceeded to the vessel, which proved to...
None
.—The Motor Life-boat William Evans was launched at 1 P.M. on the 20th October, on the receipt of an urgent appeal from a nurse on Inishere Island for a doctor.
No other suitable boat was available so the Life-boat took the...
Nor Nor
St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—During a strong W.S.W. gale, with a heavy sea, on the afternoon of the 9th January, the coastguard reported that the motor launch Nor Nor, belonging to St.
Mary's, was about two hundred...
Regal
At 9.20 P.M. on the 3rd February signals of distress were heard from the Long- stone Lighthouse, and steps were immediately taken to launch the Life- boat Forster Fawsett. Owing to the state of the tide and the muddy nature of the shore very...
H.M.S. Leigh
OCTOBER 8TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 10.15 in the morning the naval control reported that the tug H.M.S. Leigh was ashore on the Nore Sands. The weather was very foggy, with a light north-west wind and a smooth sea. The motor...
Raylight
Extended Christmas WHEN the lifeboat on duty at Islay, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, launched to a coaster at 4.15 a.m. on Christmas Day, 1972, she did not return to her station until 8.30 p.m. that evening, over 16 hours...