LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
MUD RESCUE MORECAMBE 18 MAY
A 14-year-old girl was rescued by Morecambe lifeboat crew after being trapped up to her waist in mud for 90 minutes. Morecambe’s inshore rescue hovercraft crew, accompanied by a Coastguard rescue helicopter, headed to the scene, locating the...
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Life-Boat Regulations January, 1865
THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...
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The S.S. Maiorese
The wreck of the s.s. Maiorese, of Liverpool, on the 23rd May was unhappily attended by the sad loss of four lives through the vessel foundering very suddenly. The steamer, whilst bound from Liverpool to Genoa with a general cargo,...
Trapped by the tide
Among the new lifeboats that were in action (listed in Launches, left) over the Autumn and Winter was Newquay’s D class lifeboat, Enid Mary. Her crew faced a tricky rescue in the surf when a group of students were cut off by...
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The S.S. Spiral
The Life-boat Fifi and Charles was launched during a moderate N.W. breeze and heavy ground swell on the 20th March, in answer to signals of distress from the s.s. Spiral, of Christiania. The vessel had stranded on the rocks whilst bound from...
The S.S. Araucania
Late on the night of the 25th October the s.a.
Araucania of Glasgow stranded on the rooks known as the " Inches," outside Ardrossan harbour. The vessel had left dock with a cargo of coals for Genoa, and broke down...
The Margate Life-Boat Saves a French Trawler
AT 3.50 early on the morning of the 19th of December, 1953, the coast- guard rang up to say that the police had reported that the trawler Notre Dame de la Mer, of Boulogne, had run on to the rocks on Foreness Point about one and a half miles...
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Marie Josephine
At 6.30 P.M. on the 6th November, information was received at this Life-boat Station of a vessel being stranded on the Doom bar. The Life-boat Albert Edward proceeded to her assistance, and was successful in rescuing 4 men who had been...
F. Edwards
On the 14th November, at 4.30 A.M., the No. 1 Life-boat was launched, in reply to signals of distress, shown in the direction of the Middle Cross Sand. She sailed towards the sand, and met a boat containing 5 men, the crew of the schooner F....
Martaban
POOLE.—On the 27th March, at about 2 A.M., the Poole Life-boat proceeded out in reply to signals of distress shown by the ship Martaban, of Greenock, which had stranded on the Hook Sand, and found that 6 of her crew had left her in one of...