LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 4.30 A.M. on the 21st February the Albert Edward Life-boat was launched, signals having been fired by the Swin Middle, Light-vessel. The morning was bitterly cold; a very strong wind was blowing from the N.E., and the sea was very rough....

Lytham-St Anne's, Lancashire. At 9.55 on the evening of the 4th of October, 1958, the mechanic told the honorary secretary that the owner of the motor yacht Le Cateau of Glasson Dock had rowed ashore to report that his vessel was...

For the last 12 years visitors to The Folly Inn on the banks of the River Medina on the Isle of Wight have been accosted by charming lady rattling her lifeboat collecting box! Twice a day, during flag week, Anne Burdett makes the ten minute... - View image in PDF

DOCTOR, AMBULANCE MEN AND PILOT TAKEN OUT St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 5.39 on the evening of the 20th May, 1963, Niton radio station informed the honorary secretary that a seaman on board the motor vessel Registan of London had been...

DUNWICH.—The Ann Ferguson Lifeboat put off at 11.55 A.M. on the 24th July, during a fresh S.W. wind and a rough sea, and proceeded to the assistance of the schooner Leeds, of and from Goole for London, laden with a cargo of fire-bricks and...

Amble, Northumberland. At 8.34 a.m. on 8th May, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing coble was in difficulties half a mile east of Cresswell. At 8.58 the Life-boat Millie Walton was launched in a westnorth-...

Dover, Kent.—At 11.48 on the night of the 9th of March, 1954, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that a woman had scrambled down a cliff near St.

Margaret's Bay. She had gone down to comfort her dog, which had fallen...

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