LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Foresters support SOS
The financial solutions company Foresters is lending a helping hand to this year’s SOS Day by sponsoring fundraising material for schools. Mailings, SOS champion packs for Storm Force members and a host of online downloads hope to encourage...
Category: Articles
Rito
Submerged object struck HM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Filey lifeboat station at 2048 on Tuesday December 20, 1983, that the coaster Rito was in difficulty three miles north east of Filey Brigg.
Water was...
None (30)
MARCH 5TH. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND.
An explosion had occurred five miles east of Cresswell, and the lights of a ship had disappeared, but the life-boat found nothing. - Rewards, £22 12s..
May
Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 7.30 p.m.
on 29th April, 1966, a man informed the honorary secretary that a motor fishing vessel was in trouble off the Isle of Jura.
The help of the Islay life-boat had been...
Brig O'Doone
Islay, Hebrides. At 10.20 on the night of the 16th of July, 1959, the lighthouse keeper at Rhuvaal informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had fired distress flares a mile and a half north-north-east of...
Fishing Cobles
On the after- noon of the 13th May the sea got up, and the local motor fishing cobles William and Arthur, and B.S. Colling, which were out crab and lobster fishing, were in danger of being swamped.
The life-boat coxswain...
None (5)
Brighton and Shoreham Harbour: Early in the evening of September 15, 1983, when a force 8 gale, gusting to strong gale, force 9, was blowing from the south west and the sea was very rough, a swimmer was reported in difficulties between...
Two Pedalo Pleasure Floats
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.55 on the after-noon of the 7th of June, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that two Pedalo pleasure floats, each with two people in them, were drifting south- wards. At 2.7 the life-boat E.M.E.D., on temporary duty at...
None (18)
TAKEN TO ROSSAVEEL At 2.40 p.m. on 28th September, 1964, the local district nurse requested the use of the life-boat to take an injured child to Rossaveel. No other boat being available, the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings...
Charles Francis
During a heavy W.S.W. gale signals of distress were seen at 2.20 A.M. on the 6th March from a vessel in close proximity to the " stones." The Life-boat James Stevens No. 10 was promptly launched and with some difficulty, owing to...