LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Doctors In Life-Boats
CATASTROPHE comes quickly at sea. On any dark stormy night a doctor's bed- side telephone may ring and the urgent voice of a coastguard may ask for immediate medical assistance to a ship several miles from shore. If he agrees, and the...
Category: Articles
St. Nicholas
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland - At 10.10 a.m. on 22nd March, 1969, news was received that a red flare had been sighted five miles east of Berwick pier. At 10.25 the life-boat William and Mary Durham was launched in a moderate south...
A Motor Boat
ANXIOUS PARENTS Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 1.35 a.m. on 2oth May, 1964, the Tynemouth coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the parents of two youths who had not returned from a fishing trip in an 18-foot motor boat were...
La Salle
STRUCK REEF St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 4 a.m.
on 28th May, 1965, Niton radio reported that the motor vessel La Salle of Monrovia had struck a reef about two miles north of Lihou Island. The life-boat Lloyd's, on...
Squibb
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. At 10.30 p.m. on I2th June, 1965, the coxswain was told that a vessel was burning red flares in Perwick Bay. The life-boat Edward Z. Dresden on temporary duty at the station set out in thick fog at 11.15 in a...
A Boat (3)
Happisburgh, Norfolk. At 6.45 p.m.
on i2th June, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with three people on board would capsize if her crew attempted to beach her. At 7.7 the IRB launched in...
None (10)
Salcombe, Devon - At 8.32 p.m. on 20th April, 1967, news was received that a boy was missing from a youth hostel at Oversteps and was presumed to have fallen over the cliffs at Lambrey Point.
The life-boat Baltic Exchange,...
Yorkshire Hosts:
Yorkshire hosts: Whitby's 44ft Waveney class escorts two Scottish lifeboats out of Whitby harbour on their journey north. The two visitors are the new 47ft Tyne class, Lord Saltoun, bound for Longhope and the 54ft Arun, City of Bradford... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Motor Cruiser
Lowestoft: On Monday May 14, 1984, a 17ft motor cruiser, with one man on board, suffered engine failure off Pakefield Beach; she was driven ashore and on to a groyne by the fresh north-easterly breeze. Reaching the cruiser at 1744,...
A Boat
Weston-super-Mare: On Wednesday July 25, 1984, the station's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, Weston Centenary, was on stand-by for the town's air day. She was waiting to carry out a helicopter lift demonstration when a crew...