LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shoreline
THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW is now over and once again the results are very encouraging: 1,011 new members were enrolled. Such a good result could not have been achieved, however, without the help and dedication of our voluntary...
Category: Articles
Sennen Cove Naming Ceremony. The Legacy of Mr. Charles Carr Ashley
THE new Sennen Cove life-boat is a gift to the Life-boat Service from one of its most generous benefactors, the late Mr. Charles Carr Ashley, who died at Mentone in 1906. He bequeathed his estate to the Institution, subject to a number of...
Category: Inaugurations
Lifeboat Services
North Western Division MFV on lee shore AT 2350 ON JUNE 8, 1974, Edwin B.
Brown, an ILB crew member at New Brighton, Merseyside, was told that a fishing boat appeared to be aground on a lee shore in Rock Channel. He...
Category: Services
The S.S. Newstead
During a moderate westerly gale and heavy sea on the 18th March, information reached Newhaven at 7.25 A.M. that a steamer was ashore one mile west of Cuckmere.
The Life-boat was promptly launched and proceeded to the place...
Betty II
At 2.30 P.M. on the 29th September the coastguard tele- phoned that a small boat was in trouble off The Foreland. A little later another message was received that the boat had been taken in tow, but that a motor boat in Minnis Bay was in dis...
Mervic
Bude, Port Isaac and Padstow, Cornwall; and Clovelly, North Devon - At 9.40 a.m. on 22nd August, 1969, the coastguard informed the Bude honorary secretary that distress flares from a large white boat had been seen two miles west of Lower...
Delightful (2)
COXSWAIN'S SONS RESCUED Longhope, and Stromness, Orkneys, and Wick, and Thurso, Caithness- shire. At 5.30 p.m. on I7th December, 1963, the coastguard told the Longhope honorary secretary that red flares had been seen in the Pentland...
Jo-Anne
Set against a buoy HM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, lifeboat station at 2251 on Friday, July 16, that cries for help heard coming from the vicinity of Sconce Buoy, near Fort Victoria, had been...
The Replica 12th Century Long Boat Aileach
Longboat's steering fails 40 miles north of Cape WrathSome of the latest technology came to the aid of some of the earliest when Stromness lifeboat station's relief Arun class Newsbuoy was launched to the aid of a replica 12th...
An American Flying Fortress (2)
SEPTEMBER 17TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, AND HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 12.25 in the morning the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea one and a half miles north by east of Seahouses. She was an...