LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Midley Belle (1)
Rising winds RYE AUXILIARY COASTGUARD requested the launch of Rye Harbour lifeboat at 1350 on Saturday October 3 following reports that the 24ft ketch Midley Belle was heading out to sea. It was a squally afternoon with moderate confused...
End of season drama
It was approaching the last hour of duty for lifeguards at Pendine, Carmarthenshire, but they wouldn't be hanging up their wetsuits for the year just yet.
On 5 September 2010 John O’Boyle, James Shuttleworth and Matt...
Category: Articles
October (1)
KINLOSS, ELGINSHIRE. At 11.40 in the morning of the 27th August, 1941, it was reported to the Burghead coastguard hy the R.A.F. at Kinloss, that an aeroplane had come down in the sea two miles north of Kinloss. Three men put out from...
Category: Services
Close Up
cLose UP Nor any drop to drink to the surprise of many, RnLi lifeboat crews headed inland this summer, responding to a different kind of emergency. Carol Waterkeyn fi nds out what was going on What can be worse than losing your home and...
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Crusier, of Hartlepool
On the 3rd December, in a fresh gale and heavy swell, with falls of snow and sleet, a brig was observed, apparently near the Goodwin Sands, with a signal of distress in the main rigging, and soon afterwards she was seen to cut away both...
A Small Boat (3)
Early on the morning of the 23rd March three boys put out from the harbour in a small boat and headed up the Bristol Channel.
When about half a mile out they tried to put about and return but were unable to do so, as a...
Sunbeam
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—On the afternoon of the 27th May the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel was aground on Scroby sands, bearing N.E. by E. from Yarmouth coastguard station. A rather heavy sea was...
Myrtle, and Morning Mist
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—About four in the afternoon of the 16th of July, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in difficulties half a mile west of Whitaker Beacon. At 4.15 the life- boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched in a strong...
A Lighter
Padstow, Cornwall.—During the afternoon of the 24th January, 1938, the coastguard reported a lighter drifting five to six miles N.N.W. of Trevose Head. It was not known whether there was anyone on board. A fresh S.W. breeze was blowing, and...
Clarinda
Hastings, Sussex.—At 8.34 on the morning of the llth of September, 1957, the Fairlight coastguard tele- phoned to sav a cabin cruiser was burning flares off Fairlight look-out.
At 9.2 the life-boat M.T.C. was launched....