LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Family affair
Newbiggin lifeboat had a call out with a twist on 15 November 2010, as two members of the crew found themselves rescuing some familiar faces. Two men in the traditional fishing coble Crystal Sea called Humber Coastguard at 10.40am, reporting...
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Two Fishing Boats
FEBRUARY 3RD. - MONTROSE, ANGUS.
At 10.10 in the morning a report was received from Scurdy Ness that two fishing boats which were at sea would find it dangerous to enter harbour. A northerly wind was blowing, with a heavy...
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Nov. 23RD. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
An explosion had been reported off Cooden Beach, Bexhill. A south-west gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and the life-boat searched all night, but found nothing. An increase in the usual...
People and Places
Around and about the RNLI Jam on the Bread! Two stars from the popular BBC TV series 'Bread' drew the winning tickets for the RNLI's 50th national lottery, which took place on 31 July 1990.
Nellie Boswell and...
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Albert
On the morn- ing of the 12th July the schooner Alert, of Falmouth, whilst working down Channel, bound for Truro with coal, was seen to miss stays, and before the crew could wear ship she struck on Taylor's Bank. The Life-boat John and...
Capella
RAMSGATE, KENT.—During a very strong S.S.W. gale and a very heavy sea, on the 24th February, the ketch Capella, of Libau, tried to make Ramsgate Harbour, but when still about halfa- mile away her gear carried away and she became unmanageable...
Wendy
Appledore, Devon. — At 11.33 A.M.
on the 14th August the coastguard reported that a yacht one mile N.W.
from Fairway buoy was showing flares.
She was the auxiliary yacht Wendy, of Bristol...
A Small Boat (1)
Moelfre, Anglesey.—On the 15th July four visitors, two men and two women, put out in a small boat from Benllech.
A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The boat soon got out of control and was carried away...
Little Culverden
Hastings, Sussex.—The motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched at 8.17 A.M. on the 18th November t6 search for the local open fishing boat Little Culverden, which was missing. A strong N. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The...
Rescue By Thirteen-Year-Old Boy
Ox the afternoon of Saturday, the 17th of November. 1956, a man who lived at Portland in Dorset. Mr. H.
W. Wilkinson, went out in his 20-feet motor boat Hilda Mari/ from Castletown and made for Portland Bill, where he...
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