LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Speed Boat
Four saved from capsized speedboat Three men and a woman were rescued by the Plymouth Arun class lifeboat City of Plymouth, aided by two MOD police boats, on 1 January when their speedboat capsized in Bovisand Bay after being struck by a...
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Erin's dogged determination! Whitstable's Atlantic had been involved in a very different service a few months earlier. Erin, a two-andhalf- year old Labrador-Doberman cross had grown bored of watching his dog-walkers Nick Warne and...
Fianona
NOV. 2 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. At 11.34 P.M. on the 21st November a message was received from the Deal coastguard that a mine explosion had been seen to the northeast.
A fresh S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. At...
Hartlepool
HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM On the 26th January, 1942, the Hartlepool life-boat rescued five of the crew of the S.S. Hawkwood, of London.
LIEUT. WILLIAM H. BENNISON, C.G.M., R.N.V.R., coxswain of the lifeboat, was awarded the gold...
Category: Medals
Two Brothers
MAY 30TH. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. Shortly after 1 P.M. the local fishing smack Two Brothers, with a crew of two, went to sea. As a moderate westerly wind was blowing with a moderatesea the smack was watched, and at about 4 P.M. she...
The S.S. Sharpsburg, of Philadelphia
FEBRUARY 14TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 1.55 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a life-boat was required by a tanker on fire between Ql and Q2 Buoys in the Queen’s Channel. A light northerly wind was blowing with a slight...
The Danish Steamers Bothal and Viking
MARCH 20TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
The Danish steamers Bothal and Viking had been sunk by torpedo, with the loss of thirty lives. and the survivors were left adrift on rafts. Two of these rafts were seen by an RAF machine...
Nelson
DECEMBER 5TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 8.10 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard at Warden Point that a vessel two miles to the north-east was burning flares. A westerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. At 8.25 A.M. the...
Aighai and Mistley
JULY 6TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 12.35 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel aground on South Scroby Sands, and a few minutes later another message came that a second vessel had grounded on South Scroby Sands....
Eriksborg, of Landskrona
FEBRUARY 6TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At eleven in the morning a message from a doctor, through a local shipping agent, asked for the services of the life-boat to land a man who had been seriously injured on board the Swedish steamer Eriksborg, of...