LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Inshore Rescue Boats on Service
FROM ist July to 3Oth September, 1964, inshore rescue boats were launched on service 141 times. On 24 occasions described in chronological order below they were able to rescue people in difficulties.
Southwold, Suffolk. At...
Category: Services
A New Type of Life-Boat
A NEW type of life-boat, known as the Oakley type, came into the service of the Institution in the summer of 1958.
She is 37 feet in length and has a beach weight of 9.12 tons. She is, therefore, light enough to be...
Category: Articles
Three Boys
Ballycotton, Co. Cork - At 3.15 p.m.
on 9th January, 1968, the coxswain was informed that the local fishing boat Three Boys with a crew of twowas in difficulties in Ballycotton bay.
The life-boat Ethel...
An Aeroplane (28)
MARCH 2ND. - CROMER, NORFOLK. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but a search of several hours, in which trawlers and aeroplanes took part, found nothing. - Rewards, £19 18s. 6d..
The Greek Freighter Athina B.
Twenty-six rescued HM COASTGUARD at Shoreham MRSC telephoned the honorary secretary of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat station at 0817 on Monday January 21 asking that the lifeboat be placed on standby; a merchant vessel, the 3,500-ton Greek...
St. Helier Naming Ceremony
THE new St. Helier life-boat arrived at her station on the llth of September, 1948, and on the 14th of October her naming ceremony was held on a sunny afternoon after a morning of storm.
The station was established in 1884,...
Category: Inaugurations
The Wreck of the Trawler Skegness. Eleven Lives Lost on the Yorkshire Coast
Eleven Lives Lost on the Yorkshire Coast.
ON the evening of 24th September, 1935, the steam trawler Skegness, of Hull, returning to Hull from the Faroes, with eleven men on board, went ashore under Speeton Cliffs on the...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (27)
MARCH 1ST. - BUCKIE, AND WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE. A German aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the crew got ashore by rubber dinghy in the darkness, unseen by the life-boats. - Rewards : Buckie, £11 14s. ; Whitehills, £15...
Awards to Honorary Workers
To Mrs. GOLDIE, in recognition of her valuable co-operation as Honorary Secretary of the Bath Branch, the Gold Brooch and the Record of Thanks.
To the HON. MABEL GOUGH-CALTHORPE, in recognition of her valuable co-operation...
Category: Awards
Saga, the S.S. Gowrie and S.S. St. Clair (1)
Aberdeen, and Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.
—At 2.25 on the morning of the 17th of September, 1950, the Gregness coastguard telephoned the Aberdeen life-boat authorities. The motor fish- ing vessel Saga, of Aberdeen, with a...