LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The U.S.A. Liberty Ship Abraham Baldwin
NOVEMBER 6TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 7.17 in the morning a message came from the Walmer coastguard that a large steamer was aground on the Goodwin Sands. The lifeboat crew were asked to stand by. This they did all day. At 7.12 in the evening the...
Surfers saved
Three surfers got caught in a rip current off Devon’s Barricane beach on 31 January.
One got out of trouble and made it to shore but his friends were washed away, managing to grab on to a buoy 200m from shore. Ilfracombe’s...
Category: Articles
Does Your Boat Check Out?
Safety Equipment Advisory Check How does your boot chock outP On 16 November 1999, Melvyn and Jean Taylor of Doncaster were sitting in their motor cruiser at Strawberry Island Boating Club waiting for their RNLI SEA Check Adviser to carry...
Category: Articles
Conference and Conversazione of "Life-Boat Saturday" Workers
WITH a view to the interchange of ideas and suggestions as to the " Life-boat Saturday" movement, a conference took place in the rooms of the Society of Arts, Adelphi, on the afternoon of the 2nd May. Representatives were present...
Category: Meetings
The Gaff Cutter Jolie Brine
Help for Jolie Brise THE GAFF CUTTER Jolie Brine, on her way back from Oslo to Harwich on the second leg of the 1978 Tall Ships Race, made to put in to Lowestoft for repairs after two days of gales during which, due to rigging failure, she...
Saga of Stronsay
When their pagers woke them in the early hours of Sunday 25 October 2009, Kirkwall lifeboat crew didn’t know they were to face 9 hours at sea and an injury of their own
Stronsay, looking like a missing piece of some...
Category: Articles
Tor Spray
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — About •8.45 in the evening, on the 16th of August, 1950, the Southcnd Coast- guard telephoned that a small vessel had been reported oil a reef at Arran- man's Barrels Buoy, Macharioch. At 9.13 the life-boat...
Vanadia
New Brighton, Cheshire. — At 7.40 in the morning of the 22nd of October, 1951, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that a motor yacht was in a dangerous place inside the revetment on the south side of the Queen's Channel near the Formby...
The Ex-Motor Launch Prince Siki
DRIFTING ON TO THE NORE SANDS Southend'On-Sea, Essex.—At 5.35 in the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1947, the coastguard reported that a yacht was drifting on to the Nore Sands.
The motor life-boat Milburn, on tem-...
Joass
YACHTS IN DISTRESS Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—In the morning of the 8th of June, 1947, the Warden Point coastguard reported a yacht ashore on the Spile Sands, and the motor life-boat Milburn, on tempor- ary duty at the station, was...