LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Racy Lady Aground on the Middle Shingle Bank.
Racy Lady aground on the Middle Shingle Bank. Crew member Falcon Hawkins can be seen on the yacht's foredeck having swum across with a line.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
One day, two calls
26 April: New Brighton Having already towed 11 fishermen ashore after they suffered propeller problems, New Brighton lifeboat crew launched in search of five sailors in trouble aboard a yacht. They found it in...
Category: Articles
Yachts and Pleasure Boats Represent Almost 60% of Lifeboat Launches
Yachts and pleasure boats represent almost 60% of lifeboat launches, so these were the first target for the RNLI's Sea Safety initiative. Even the most well-found vessel can find herself in trouble, but the aim of the initiative is to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gale-force teamwork
New Quay and Pwllheli’s all-weather lifeboats worked together to rescue the crew of the Galasma on 6 September. The yacht, with fi ve people onboard, was having trouble in a force 8 northerly wind. Rough seas meant she wasn’t making much...
Category: Articles
Hunt's Gun and Projectile for Effecting Communication With Wrecked Vessels
IN the last number of this Journal we described an ingenious American invention for night-signalling, which we conceive would be especially valuable in cases of stranding, or other disaster to trading vessels. "We have now to notice...
Category: Articles
Susan Ann
Appledore, Devon.—At 8.30 on the evening of the llth of July, 1953, the second coxswain told the coxswain that he had seen the yacht Susan Ann, of Fremington, with a crew of four, make distress signals. The Susan Ann was off Crow Rocks near...
Ada Gane
PALLING, NORFOLK.—While a moderate wind was blowing from E. by N., accompanied by a heavy sea and a dense fog, on the 26th February, the Coxswain of the Life-boat was informed that a vessel was riding in a dangerous position near the outer...
A Hundred Years Ago
WALMER AND DEAL, KENT A BRANCH of the National Life-boat Institution, under the above title, has been recently founded at Walmer, and a 30-feet life-boat, on Mr. Peake's plan, perfectly equipped both for sailing and rowing, and combining...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Services In 1904
Lives saved.
Newbiggin, North Sunder- land, Port Isaac, Scarboro', Staithes, Stonehaven, Whitby —rendered assistance.
Frobfsher, steam trawler, of Yar- mouth, assisted to save vessel and 9 George...
Category: Services
Gay Star
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire - At 2.30 a.m. on 3oth March, 1967, news was received that the fishing boat Gay Star with a crew of two was in difficulties two miles west of Bardsey Island. The life-boat Charles Henry Ashley launched...