LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Record Draw
The RNLI's 80th lifeboat lottery drawn on 31 January raised a incredible £212,000 from tickets sales - the previous highest total was last year's Summer lottery raising £182,000.
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Reliance, of London
On the night of the 5th January, the barque Reliance, of London, was driven on shore in a violent snow- storm, near Walmer Castle, on the coast of Kent. The Walmer life-boat was qxrickly manned and proceeded to the rescue of her crew of 15...
Gertrud
At daybreak on the 2nd October the watchman observed a steamer ashore on the Scroby Sand, and at once reported the matter. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane were promptly assembled and the boat, in tow of a tug, proceeded to the...
Thorn Paul
Girvan, Ayrshire. —At 6.30 on the evening of the 16th of February, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the local fishing boat Aurora had wirelessed that the fishing boat Thorn Paul, of Whitehaven, had lost her rudder about nine miles...
The Harbour Motor Launch Scout
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 6th of October, 1955, a message was received from the pier- head at Ramsden dock that the local harbour motor launch Scout, which had a crew of two and which had put off to a dumb dredger...
Albert
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At three in the morning of the 12th of October, 1948, the owner of the fishing smack Albert, of Boston, reported that the smack was to the southward, leaking, and in diffi- culties, and the motor life-boat Anne Allen...
The Daunt Rock Lightvessel
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 12.30 in the morning of the llth of October, 1949; the Civic Guard reported that a radio message had been picked up by the Roches Point Lighthouse, stating that the S.S. Glengariffe had wirelessed that the Daunt...
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Swanage, Dorset. At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 3rd of July, 1958, a boy told the coxswain that two bathers were making little headway in their efforts to reach the shore a hundred and fifty yards north-north-east of Peveril Point. They...
The Launch Scottish Maid
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 7.34 on the evening of the 3rd of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the launch Scottish Maid with one man on board, appeared to be in difficulties. A later message con- firmed that...
Eider Duckling
Walmer, Kent. At 2.38 on the morning of the 7th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the South Goodwin lightvessel had reported a flashing light three miles east-north-east of her position. At 2.55 the life-boat...