LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Swanage, Dorset.—At 6.5 in the evening, on the 29th of August, 1950, the coastguard telephoned a message from the St. Albans Head coastguard that a motor boat was two miles south- west by west of the Head. There was no sign of...

LOWESTOFT | 6 JUNE
After a Dutch yachtsman failed to reach his destination and days of radio silence passed, a Coastguard aircraft spotted him drifting 14 miles off Lowestoft. Coxswain John Fox launched with his fellow crew...

MAY 27TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.

At daybreak the coble Premier had gone out to attend to her crab pots. By 8.30 there was thick fog and a heavy sea was breaking at the pier head. There was a breeze from the north-east....

RESCUES FROM THREE YACHTS IN TURN Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and Margate, Kent. At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 26th August, 1962, the coastguard ininformed the honorary secretary at Southend-on-Sea that a small sailing dinghy had capsized near...

Nov. 19TH. - CLACTON -ON - SEA, ESSEX. About 3.30 in the morning the coastguard reported to the Clacton - On - Sea life-boat station that they had seen red Very lights to the southsouth- west, four miles from their look-out. At four o’clock...

While on holiday on the Isle of Wight last summer, Albert the Irish Wolfhound collected nearly £50 for Yarmouth lifeboat.

Owner Mary Knight took him along to the station's open day and not many people were able to... - View image in PDF

DEC. 22ND. - TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND At 1.40 P.M. the coastguardtelephoned that a vessel had struck a mine north of the Tyne. The sea was slight, with a westerly wind blowing. The motor lifeboat John Pyemont was launched at 2.20...

AUGUST 3lST. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.

At 10 P.M. lamp signals were seen from a position two miles E.S.E. of Small Saltee Island, and the motor life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched at 11.15 P.M.

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