LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The French Fishing Boat Jeune Louis
Hastings, Sussex.—At 4.2 on the afternoon of the 25th of November, 1952, a coastguardsman at Pett tele- phoned that a fishing boat was in diffi- culties near the shore off Rye. Later the Fairlight coastguard stated that she had apparently...
Watermillock, of Sunderland
Early on the morning of the 6th November, during a gale of wind from the N.N.W., accompanied by blinding showers, a vessel was observed in distress about a mile and a half from this place. The Par see life- boat promptly proceeded to the...
The ex-Dutch Motor Vessel Sumatra
NOVEMBER 6TH. - BEAUMARIS, ANGLESEY. At about 11A.M. the coastguard telephoned that the resident naval officer at Holyhead wanted the lifeboat to take out a doctor to the ex-Dutch motor vessel Sumatra, near Puffin Island, as she had an...
H.M Torpedo Destroyer and Countess of Anglesey
At 8 A.M. on the 26th February, a telephone message was received from the coastguard that one of H.M. Torpedo Destroyers was rapidly drifting towards the break- water, and that the crew of the Life- boat Friern Watch should be...
Loma Novia
JANUARY 4TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. At 9.50 in the morning, a Preston Corporation lightman at Lytham telephoned that a tanker was aground. The St. Annes coastguard were informed and the naval-officer-in-charge at Fleetwood...
Princess Marina and the Bishop of Lewes at Shoreham Ceremony
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Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—The large Life- boat on this station, having become through frequent use, unfit for further service, has been replaced by a new boat, which, like the one it superseded, has been named the Covent Garden, in acknow- ledgement...
Category: Articles
Two to One.
On October nth., 1941, the total number of lives rescued by life-boats since the beginning of the war was 4131. That is the exact number which they rescued in the whole of the last war, from 4th. August 1914 to nth. November 19i8. In no...
Category: Articles
The Admiralty Drifter No. 634
JANUARY 10TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
Shortly after six in the evening the coastguard reported a vessel firing lights and signalling SOS at the entrance to Wells harbour. A strong north-by-west wind was blowing with a heavy swell...
Arran, of Irvine
On the 19th April, the bngArran, of Irvine, was stranded, | during a fresh gale of wind, on the bank be- tween the Main and Ireland's Eye, off Howth. The Howth life-boat was quickly manned and launched, and succeeded in bringing the...