LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
John and Emma
8.45 A.M. on the 23rd July, the Coastguard reported that a Lowestoft smack was ashore on the north part of the Barrow Sands.
Coxswain Haylett at once assembled the crew and kept the smack under observation for some time...
A Vessel
A good service was skilfully performed by the No. 1 Lifeboat Kentwell on the 27th May during a strong S.S.W. gale and very heavy sea. About midnight on the 26th idem flares were reported near the South Pier, and the coxswain of the Life-boat...
Sea Sweeper
Appledore and Dfracombe, North Devon - At 8.35 p.m. on 17th July, 1969, the Hartland coastguard told the Appledore life-boat coxswain that the cabin cruiser Sea Sweeper, with two people on board, was in difficulties one mile west of Baggy...
Tanana
Stronsay, Orkneys. At 1.15 early on the morning of the 5th of October, 1958, the coastguard at Kirkwall told the honorary secretary that a distress message had been sent from a vessel in the Westray Firth. While the life-boat crew were being...
Oarsman
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 12.36 on the afternoon of the 19th of February, 1959, Lloyd's agent informed the honorary secretary that a seaman aboard the tanker Oarsman of London had fallen thirty feet from the mast on to...
A Sailing Boat (4)
Clovelly, Devon. At 9.20 on the morning of the 6th of June, 1959, the honorary secretary was informed that a small sailing boat, which had beet under observation since 6.30 but had made no distress signals, was drifting off Clovelly. The...
Britta
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 9.40 on the morning of the 29th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of messages re- ceived from the Trinity House pilot cutter and from the Sunk lightvessel that a large motor vessel...
Rafla (1)
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 6.56 on the evening of the 28th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was burning red flares five miles north-east of Sizewell.
At 7.10 the life-boat The...
The Passenger Liner Venus
LINER GROUNDED Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 7.10 a.m. on 23td May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the passenger liner Venus of Bergen had gone aground off the Herd Sand Groyne, but no help had been requested. The life...
None (11)
SPANIARD WAS ILL At 4.30 p.m. on 23rd December, 1964, the army authorities in Benbecula reported that a Spanish seaman on the Isle of St. Kilda was seriously ill with suspected typhoid, and that as a helicopter could not help, the life-boat...