LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rescue from French Yacht
ACTING Coxswain Eric Grandin of St. Helier, Jersey, has been accorded the Institution's thanks inscribed on vellum for the rescue of four people from the French yacht Kraken which went aground on 26th March, 1967. The St. Helier honorary...
Category: Services
Marine Search and Rescue Organisation
THE report of the committee set up to review the Marine Search and Rescue Organisation of the United Kingdom has now been published. Its publication was reported briefly in certain newspapers, but had little editorial...
Category: Articles
Rescue from Cliff In Full Gale
AT 11.10 p.m. on the night of Saturday I4th September, 1963, Mr. R. Watt, the honorary secretary of the Mallaig life-boat station, learnt from the police that a number of people were trapped on a cliff in Loch Duich. A quarter of an hour...
Category: Services
A Swim Too Far
A sWim too fAR During the aftermath of Hurricane Gordon, when Ireland was buffeted by extraordinary gales, one woman found herself in grave danger The call came on 21 September 2006. As she cleared the shelter of the harbour and entered...
Category: Articles
District Conferences. The Isle of Wight and Exeter
Two conferences were held in the Southwestern District during January. The first, at Newport, Isle of Wight, was a conference of Life-boat workers in the Island, and the second, at Exeter, of Life-boat workers in Cornwall and Devonshire,...
Category: Articles
Dorothea
At 4.30 A.M. on the 21st February the Albert Edward Life-boat was launched, signals having been fired by the Swin Middle, Light-vessel. The morning was bitterly cold; a very strong wind was blowing from the N.E., and the sea was very rough....
Contest, of Guernsey
On the 16th Novem- i ber, the brig Contest, of Guernsey, was I stranded during a gale of wind from the I East, on the Hook Sands. The Manley I Wood life-boat at Poole went out three | times and took off 46 men from the...
Lily of Devon
The Lowestoft Life-boat.
The Lowestoft Motor Life-boat, a few miles to the south of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, would have been launched to the help of the Georgia instead of the Southwold boat, but on the afternoon...
The S.S. Dungonnell
CLACTON-ON-SEA, ESSEX.—The coastguard having informed the coxswain of the Life-boat Albert Edward, on the morning of the 2nd February, that signals had been fired by the Swin Middle Light-vessel, he summoned the crew, and at 5.30 the...
The Madeleine
At half-past four on the morning of Sunday, the 23rd October, a coastguardman, on the look-out near the quiet little seaside town of Clacton, saw a signal rocket fired from, the Gunfleet Floating Lightship, which told of a wreck on the...