LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rafla
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 10.15 on the night of the 21st of October, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen a mile and a half north-east of the Sizewell coast- guard look-out. At 10.40 the life-boat The...
Jenny III
The following account of a service by the Newhaven, Sussex, life-boat on the 27th of September, 1959, was received too late for inclusion in the December 1959 number of the Life- boat.
At 12.5 in the afternoon, the coast-...
Tern
Coaster escort Another service which made the headlines was carried out by the Hastings and Eastbourne lifeboats on 14 November 1993.
The coaster Tern was badly down by the head and in severe difficulties 10 miles off the...
In This Issue.
News and views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat services 8 Life at the sharp end including two Bronze Medal winning rescues The annual meetings 2001 18 Chairman Peter Nicholson reports on a year of great achievement plus...
Category: Contents
An Aeroplane (22)
MARCH 25TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At 1.42 A.M. the coastguard informed the life-boat station that an explosion, apparently from an aeroplane which had crashed into the sea, had been heard at a coast-watching post at...
The S.S. May
At 1.15 A.M. on 23rd November a telephone message was received stating that the lights of a vessel ashore off Ballyfrenis Point were seen. As this is a very dangerous part of the coast, the Motor Life-boat William and Mary proceeded to...
Austrums, of Riga
Fourteen Launches in One Day.
Two Services by the Ramsey, Isle of Man, Life-boat.
ON January 26fch last there were severe gales all round the coast, and fourteen Life-boat launches took place at Montrose,...
Gallantry of a Son of a Life-Boat Worker
On 12th November last, the British steamer Vestris, two days out on a voyage from New York to Barbados and South American ports, sank in a gale 240 miles off the coast of Virginia, with heavy loss of life. Among those on board her was the...
Category: Articles
Sheila
At 10.25 A.M. on 4th December the Coast- guard informed the Life-boat Authori- ties by telephone that a boat was flying signals of distress four miles E.N.E. of Seaton Sluice Coastguard Station, and the Motor Life-boat Joseph Adlam promptly...
Remembrance and Fortunas
At about 1.10 P.M. on the 8th January the Coxswain was informed by a fisherman that a fishing boat had broken down and was blowing towards the shore south oi Whitby. The Coastguard confirmed this and added that another fishing boat was going...