LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Elsie
JUNE 25TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 7.13 P.M. a message was received from the Berry Head coastguard that a small boat, with two people on board, appeared to be in distress 2 miles S.W. by S. of the Torquay coastguard look-out hut. A W.N.W. breeze...
Grace Darling
For all that a century and a quarter has passed since Grace Darling and her father attained fame, over the years their story has attracted the interest of a succession of authors. Save for two early works, which were almost blatantly fiction...
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A Vampire Aircraft (1)
Barry Dock, and The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 1.5 on the after- noon of the 12th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretaries at Barry Dock and The Mumbles that a request had been received from the Sea Rescue Co-...
Royal Connections
RNLI crew members and fundraisers were among the guests at the Buckingham Palace garden party on 14 July. Rhyl Coxswain Peter Robinson (pictured meeting HM The Queen) says: ‘It was an honour for my wife and myself to attend and we thoroughly...
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Ferdinand Retzlaff
IN COLLISION Dungeness, Kent. At 2.52 a.m. on 4th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the British vessel Cape Nelson had been in collision with the German motor vessel Ferdinand Retzlaff of Bremen, seven miles...
Plain Jane
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 10.50 on the night of the 9th of September, 1950, the Kingston-on-Sea coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the Worthing police.
A vessel was making distress signals two...
Margaret
Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 9.50 on the night of the 15th of September, 1949, the coastguard reported that a motor fishing boat was in distress off Bloody Bridge and her crew shouting for help. The life-boat William and Laura was launched at...
Arne
Swanage, Dorset-At 4.55 p.m. on 31st May, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy was in difficulties three miles south of Dancing Ledge. At 5.3 the life-boat R.L.P. was launched and at 5.27 she reached the...
Lord March
At 5.10 P.M. on the 22nd February, during a W.N.W.
hurricane, the schooner Lord March, of Whitstable, was observed about five miles to the north of Palling, flying signals of distress. With all speed the crew of the No. 2...
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Galway Bay. At 4 p.m. on i3th November, 1965, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take a sick man from the Inishmaan island to the mainland for hospital treatment, as no other suitable boat was available. The...