LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Twenty-Four Hours In the Life-Boat Service
THE table below gives details of the services of the life-boats during a period of twenty-four hours on the 28th-29th of July.
Station Launches Casualty Hours at sea Lives rescued ...
Category: Services
Two Small Sailing Yachts
ESCORTING YACHTS IN A FOG Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 11.80 on the night of the 24th of July, 1947, it was reported that two small sailing yachts from Howth were lost in fog, and the motor life-boat R.P.L. was launched at 11.45. There was no wind...
Double grounding
17 September 2011: Hayling Island lifeboat crew assess the situation at the scene of a grounded yacht. The yacht’s crew were taken back to the station to await the rising tide. This was Hayling Island’s second call out to a grounded yacht...
Category: Articles
Award for Bravest Act of Lifesaving
THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life-boat crew in 1961 has been won by Coxswain John Stonehouse of Teesmouth for the rescue of the crew of three of the yacht Sybil Kathleen on the 1st...
Category: Awards
Yachtsmen Brought Off the Goodwins
The Walmer life-boat towed in this yacht. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pedler
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 8.40 on the evening of the 27th of June, 1955, the coastguard reported that the sailing yacht Pedler, which had a crew of two, had capsized off Primrose Valley. A fishing coble and another vacht went to her help, and at...
Sweet Reason
Ramsgate, Kent. At 7.50 p.m. on 2ist August, 1965, a local yacht club told the honorary secretary that three yachts were missing in a race. One was thought to be dismasted five miles inside the North Goodwin lightvessel. The life-boat...
BIENVENUE!
Eastbourne’s Mersey class lifeboat Royal Thames was launched on 22 August to help the crew of a yacht that had suffered mechanical failure.
Lifeboat crew members are pictured onboard the yacht setting up a tow. The yacht’s...
Category: Articles
Aquila
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.43 on the morn- ing of the 16th of May, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the yacht Aquila had gone ashore at West Ray Point. At 7.52 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put to sea. There was a moderate sea, and a...
Wind Rush and Ariel
TWO YACHTS TAKEN IN TOW New Brighton, Cheshire. At 7.20 on the evening of the 22nd June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground between the revetment and Taylor's bank. The life-boat White Star, on...