LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
South West Division Dismasted yacht AT 1330 on Sunday August 11, 1985, Portland coastguard received a 999 call from a member of the public reporting he had seen a yacht firing a white flare about a mile and a half south of Lulworth Cove. The...
Category: Services
IRB LAUNCHES
The following additional IRB services took place in April, July and August, 1969: No. 2 Life-boat Area Largs, Ayrshire - At 2.25 p.m. on llth August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a rowing dinghy, with one crewman,...
Category: Services
Letters and Membership
Dear Editor Further to your recent rescue account from Appledore, I thought your readers might be interested in the attached.
We acquired Boarding Boat 132 in 1994 after nearly 30 years' service at Appledore lifeboat...
Category: Correspondence
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
LOWESTOFT.—On the night of the 2nd November, 1861, the schooner Fly, of Whitby, was in a leaky state, and in danger of foundering near Lowestoft, in a heavy gale from the north. On her making signals of distress, the life-boat of the...
Category: Services
Dizzy Dunlop and Caboceer
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.
—During a dense fog on the 6th of April it was reported that a schooner was in distress on Atherfield Ledge. The crew of the Life-boat Worcester Cadet were summoned, and at 8.55 P.M. the...
May
The Crew of the Motor Life-boat George Shee were assem- bled at 11 P.M. on 28th February as the Coastguard had reported to the Cox- swain that a vessel—which was found later to be the motor trawler May, of Ostend, bound for the fishing...
Chipperkyle
On the 24th April an intimation by telephone was received that a large vessel was aground on the North Leman Sand.
The No. 2 Life - boat Margaret was launched, and after sailing about seventeen miles, fell in with the...
St. George
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE.—Signals having been hoisted at the Gunfleet light-vessel denoting that immediate assistance was required, on the 27th June, the Life-boat Honourable Artillery Company was launched at 6.13 P.M. in a moderate sea and a...
Sarah A. Purdy
Tynemouth, Northumberland. — At 8.50 A.M. on the 20th December, 1937, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore in the harbour entrance. A light east breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell, and the weather was very cold, with dense fog. The...
The Sailing Boat Shira
Falmouth, Cornwall. — About 6.45 in the evening, on the 23rd of April, 1950, the police reported that a man had been found unconscious at St. Just. When he recovered he had told them a com- panion was adrift in the sailing boat Shira. At...