LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A celebration of life
Geoff Holt was a teenage sailor with vast potential when an accident changed his life. But his love of the sea and spirit of adventure have no bounds
There were no lifeguards on duty to warn...
Category: Articles
Vibelia
CHAPEL, LINCOLNSHIRE.—While a strong breeze was blowing from S.E. to N.E. anda heavy sea was running, on the 8th of April, the schooner Vibelia, of and from Grimstadt for Boston, Lincolnshire, with a cargo of pit-poles and lumber, stranded...
"Charles & Susanna Stevens": 1905—1925. 289 Lives Rescued from Shipwreck
The old Ramsgate Pulling and Sailing Life-boat going out on her last service, 14th October, 1925.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Pilot Boats
— Just before nightfall on 9th April two pilot boats had been seen pulling out to sea in a moderate S.W. gale with a rough sea and heavy rain. After dark the wind increased and anxiety was felt for their safety, so it was decided to launch...
Lucille
A motor boat named Lucille, belonging to the local Sea Scouts, left Piel about 10 A.M.
on the 20th August for a return trip to Fleetwood. She had not returned by 10.20 P.M., and no news could be got of her, so the Motor...
A Fishing Boat (3)
29th November. A fishing boat ran ashore, but a motor- boat rescued the crew.—Rewards, £15 9s..
A Yach
24th March. A dis- abled yacht was drifting towards the Goodwins, but motor boats took her in tow.—Rewards, £30 16s. 6d..
A Motor Launch
6th May. A motor launch was drifting disabled, but a pilot boat rescued the crew.— Rewards, £8 3s..
A Motor Vessel
22nd Novem- ber. A motor vessel stranded, but a tug gave the help needed.—Permanent crew; Rewards, 9s..
Panamanian Ship Aground
Her crew of twenty-five were rescued by the St Mary's life-boat (see page 50). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs