LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Dungeness, Kent - At 6.25 p.m. on 24th June, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three skin divers were missing in the Varne bank area about eight miles east of Dungeness.

The life-boat Mabel E....

FEBRUARY 3RD. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. Shortly before 1 P.M. information was received from the Flamborough Royal Naval Shore Signal Station that a vessel was in distress off Flamborough with her boats out. An easterly wind was, blowing,...

Not long after the lifeboat had returned, at 1815. a message came to Torbay station honorary secretary from Brixham Coastguard that something was amiss in mid channel. Coxswain Curnow and Motor Mechanic Stephen Bower were alerted and at 1914...

JANUARY 14TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY.

At noon the lightkeeper on Little Samphire reported a ship’s raft floating three miles to the N.N.W., and a second raft farther north. A strong N.W. wind was blowing with a heavy breaking...

Youghal, Co. Cork.—On the afternoon of the 30th November the motor lifeboat Laurana Sarah Blunt went out on exercise. When near Cape! Island, she saw two men in a small fishing boat, about a mile and a half S.E. of the island, waving for...

RHOSCOLYN, ANGLESEY.—The s.s. Columbian, of Liverpool, 3,300 tons, from South America, with 800 live cattle and large quantity of cotton, struck on some detached rocks in Penrhos Bay in foggy weather on the 28th September. Sue fired...

WILLIAM FLEMING, former coxswain of the Gorleston life-boat, died on the 30th of September, 1954, at the age of 89.

He was born in 1865 and first served as a member of the Gorleston crew before he was twenty. He became...

FEBRUARY 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. At 8.58 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel in distress east-south-east of the coastguard station. A southerly gale was blowing against the first of the flood tide and raising a very rough broken sea...