LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Isabela
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 4.28 a.m. on ist September, 1965, the coastguard reported that red flares had been sighted off the S.W. Girdler buoy.
There was a fresh north-westerly wind, a moderate sea, and it was one hour...
Scaldis
Torbay, South Devon - At 10.45 p.m.
on 23rd November, 1969, information was received that the m.f.v.
Scaldis was in difficulties in Lyme bay. At 11.10 the life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent slipped her...
Betty M
ESCORT FOR YACHT IN TOW OF PILOT LAUNCH Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 5th August.
1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was showing flares near the East One...
Cheviot Wind
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 8.50 on the evening of the 8th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser needed help a mile and a half south-east-by- south of the Bench Head buoy. The life-boat Sir Godfrey...
A Speed Boat
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 9.20 on the evening of the 4th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police at Lymington had reported a small boat in distress off the West Lepe buoy. At 9.35 the life-boat S.G.E....
Semnos II
Aberdeen - At 2.9 a.m. on i6th December, 1966, a red flare was sighted north of the river Ythan, and later it was confirmed that the motor fishing vessel Semnos II was aground north of the river estuary. The coastguard L.S.A. company were...
S.S. Brightside, of Middlesbrough
SEPTEMBER 27TH. - CAISTER, NORFOLK.
At 9.15 in the morning the coastguard reported a small steamer aground on the east side of the Scroby Sands. A moderate west-north-west wind was blowing, with a ground swell. The...
Windgap, of London
AUGUST 7TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 10.50 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that North Foreland Radio had picked up a message from the American steamer City of Alma that a motor yacht to the north of Dumpton Buoy was in need of immediate...
The Life-Boat Service In 1948. A Comparison With Ten and Twenty Years Ago
IN 1948 the life-boats of the Institution were called out 603 times to vessels in distress.
Ten years ago the number was 485.
That was then a record year for time of peace. In each of the three years since...
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Past and Present
100 years ago One hundred years ago THE LIFEBOAT was also looking back - another 50 years to what it termed: A Noteworthy Jubilee from THE LIFEBOAT of 1893 Fifty years ago, Le. on the 20th October, 1842 there was laid to rest in her early...
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