LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kittiwake
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 11.0 on the night of the 8th of September, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that the sailing dinghy Kittiwake had put out on a fishing trip that afternoon, but had not returned. At 11.15 the life- boat Jane Holland, on...
Fishing Boats
FIVE COBLES ESCORTED BACK IN GALE Scarborough, Yorkshire. On the morning of the 31st May, 1962, when five local fishing boats were at sea, a strong northerly gale blew up and the sea became very rough. As conditions were growing worse, the...
Welcome
Workington, Cumberland - At 2 p.m. on 5th February, 1967 a small boat was reported to be firing distress flares two miles to the seaward of Sailerbeck cemetery. The life-boat Thomas McCunn on temporary duty at the station, slipped her...
Violet Sinclair
Barmouth, Merionethshire - At 8.55 a.m. on 22nd March, 1966, the police informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat, the Violet Sinclair, had been seen three miles south west of Barmouth firing red flares. At 9.10 the life-boat The...
November
Launches 51 Lives rescued 52 NOVEMBER 3RD. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
At 5.42 in the evening, information was received from the naval authorities at Great Yarmouth, through the coastguard, that a motor vessel; outside Wells harbour...
Category: Services
Rolla, of Hull
On the 14th July the Withernsea Life-boat went out during a strong breeze from the N.E. to the steamer Rotta, of Hull, which had gone ashore about two miles south of Withern- sea. The vessel, however, succeeded in getting out of danger...
One of the good folk
As he restrings his tenor guitar, Seth Lakeman can’t help but have a smile on his face. He’s backstage at a music festival, enjoying the calm before another whirlwind performance. A few days earlier, his new album was propelled into the top...
Category: Articles
'Their hearts must have sunk as they watched us pass them'
It was an overcast morning on 26 August when a father and son began their fishing holiday in Cruden Bay, Aberdeen - a trip that gave them more drama than they bargained for
RNLI Peterhead...
Category: Articles
Helping Hand, of Lowestoft
DECEMBER 17TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
During the afternoon information was received through the coastguard that the motor fishing vessel Helping Hand, of Lowestoft, with seven on board, was in difficulties, but that a tug...
Vital Volunteers
It is not just the shops that would suffer without volunteers. There are more than 800 RNLI fundraising branches and guilds across the UK and Rol, whose souvenir secretaries operate from stalls at local events, sometimes in the least likely...
Category: Articles