LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Zepturb
St. Ives, Cornwall - At 11.57 a-m- on 9th April, 1966, the owner of the speedboat Zepturb informed the honorary secretary that his boat was out of fuel and was drifting out to sea in St. Ives Bay.
The IRB was launched...
Fairwinds
YACHT TOWED INTO HARBOUR Weymouth, Dorset. At 6.24 on the evening of the 5th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing distress flares two miles south of Portland Bill.
The life...
Marosa
JULY 15TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. During the evening a message was received from the coastguard, that a yacht was ashore on the Buxey Sands, but was not showing any distress signals. A gentle S.E. breeze was blowing, with a slight sea....
Emulate
AUGUST 5TH. - PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.
At about 8 in the morning the coastguard reported that the fishing boat Emulate, of Kirkcaldy, was in difficulties about four miles W.N.W. of Peel, and the motor life-boat Helen Sutton was...
Ocean Child, and Ketch Happy Return
PORTRUSH, Co. ANTRIM.—The schooner Ocean Child, of Belfast, bound from Ayr to Lough Swilly with coal, anchored in Skerries Roads at noon on the 20th August, through stress of weather. The wind increased, and at about 4 o'clock on the...
Elaine
YACHT FOUND AFTER NIGHT SEARCH Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 2.2 on the morning of the 28th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen about four miles south-west of the Ventnor look-out....
None (1)
Injured boy A MESSAGE from a doctor was received by Criccieth ILB station at 1135 on Tuesday July 31, 1979. asking that a 12-year-old boy, injured when he fell from the rocks at Black Rock, should be taken off by inshore...
A False Alarm
EARLY in the morning of 22nd August the Selsey Motor Life-boat was launched iu answer to signals from what appeared to be a vessel in distress off Bognor.
She cruised about for three hours, but could find no sign of any...
Category: Articles
Walmer's Boathouse
Walmer's boathouse was designed by the RNLI's first Honorary Architect. Charles Cooke. Appointed in 1858 Cooke was influenced by a building he had designed for Colombo (then Ceylon) with overhanging eaves to give protection from the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Juan Ferrer (1)
CLUNG TO WRECKAGE Penlee, and Sennen Cove, Cornwall.
At 2.58 a.m. on 23rd October, 1963, the coastguard at St. Just was informed by Land's End radio that a Spanish vessel had gone aground near Mount's...