LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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...
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MAN AND BOY CUT OFF BY TIDE Walmer, Kent. At 3.39 on the afternoon of Saturday the 13th of July, 1963, the Deal coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boatman returning from St. Margaret's with a fishing party had seen two people...
Summity and Gronland
JULY 25TH. - DOVER, KENT. A 3.10 P.M. the Sandgate coastguard reported that a vessel which had been attacked by German aeroplanes was sinking off Sandgate, but said that naval motor boats were going to her help. At 3.30 P.M. it was reported...
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— On the evening of the 26th January, the coast- guard reported that a vessel was on fire about seven miles east of the Mull of Galloway. A moderate north gale was blowing, with a moderate to rough sea, and the weather was very...
A Small Open Boat
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. — During the morning of the 17th September the coastguard reported that a small open boat under sail two miles south of Aldeburgh was making very heavy weather. A moderate to fresh squally south breeze was blowing, with a...
The Lowestoft Trawler Boston Pegasus
Humber, Yorkshire. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 30th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a trawler with an injured man on board was making for the Humber and that the services of a doctor were needed...
A Sailing Boat
Rolled over ON TUESDAY EVENING, August 24, 1982, at 1938, Mudeford station honorary secretary and a lifeboatman, John Batchelor, sighted a red flare 2l/2 miles south west of the lifeboat station off Hengistbury Head. Maroons were fired and...
Northern Exposure
On a squally November night, time was rapidly running out for a fisherman in the water in Fraserburgh Harbour
It was quick thinking, forward planning and great teamwork by the local lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Bryony
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 2.55 A.M.
on the 25th August, 1938, the harbourmaster reported rockets near Black Rock Buoy in the Solent. The night was fine and the sea smooth. The motor life-boat S.G.E. put out at 3.17 A.M.,...
Ministry of Transport Award
THE Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, Mr. Harold Watkinson, has awarded the Ministry's shield for the best rescue service of the year to the Collieston (Aberdeen) Coast Life-saving Company for the rescue by breeches buoy of the...
Category: Awards