LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the 30th March, at 5.15 A.M., in reply to signals of distress the Life-boat Bradford and steam-tug Vulcan proceeded to the East Goodwin Lightship and found that she had been run into by a schooner, and had one of the vessel's crew on...

Aground on Goodwins REPORTS OF SHIP'S LIGHTS in the vicinity of East Goodwin Buoy were passed to the honorary secretary of Walmer lifeboat station by Dover Straits Coastguard at 2130 on Saturday December 10, 1977. The East Goodwin...

WHO IS NADIA SAWALHA?
Actor, writer and two-time marathon runner, Nadia Sawalha has appeared in films including Slave of Dreams and Clockwise, and is a regular face on TV. She is perhaps best known for her roles in soaps such as...

The Tweenies join the crew Popular children's BBC TV programme, The Tweenies, was in Poole in August filming with Poole lifeboat crew. The character Judy (the green one in the picture!) went afloat on the station's Brede class...

Emsworth harbourmaster Sid Kennett is well known for announcing 'there's room fora goldfish to swim ' if his pint glass is not filled to the brim, but he was left speechless when Jan Jackson, landlady of the Bluebell Inn decided... - View image in PDF

PADSTOW.—The Albert Edward Lifeboat put off during a strong gale from the N.W., arid a very heavy sea, and with great difficulty rescued the crew, consist- ing of four men, from the schooner Favorite, of Quimper, which had lost her sails and...

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Down. — 31st October. The coast- guard had telephoned that an aeroplane was reported to have fallen into the sea about one and a half miles S.E. of St.

John's...

Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 4.27 on the morning of the 12th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a message had been intercepted from an unknown vessel, stating : " Collision one mile Rough Tower." As...