LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tennetje
The end of a Brixham trawler The crew of Torbay's Arun Edward Bridges (Civil Service No. 37) can only watch as the trawler Tennetje sinks off Start Point, Devon on 17 July 1988.
The lifeboat had been called at 0605...
Sorel, of Denmark
Lerwick, Shetland - At 9.46 p.m on 9th March, 1967, a fishing vessel was reported nearly ashore in the south harbour.
At 10.10 the life-boat Claude Cecil Staniforth proceeded in a rough sea. The tide was flooding. The C.R.E...
Couthie
Margate, Kent - At 10.50 p.m. on 28th July, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Couthie, with a crew of two on board, had gone ashore at Gresham bay, Birchington. The coastguards were standing by on shore and...
Ageroen
CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND.—A flare was observed by a fisherman at about 4.30 A.M. on the llth January, apparently caused by burning tar-barrels on board a vessel on the rocks at Nabb Point. The weather at the time was foggy, the windwas...
Puffin
Southend-on-Sca, Essex - At 10.50 a.m. on I2th February, 1967, attention was drawn to a small fishing boat, with an angling party on board, reported to be in distress offCanvey Point. The life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary...
New Brighton Mechanic's Gallantry
Last June the district engineer, district surveyor and the motor mechanic were in the boarding boat at New Brighton when she was hanging in the davits on the landing-stage. One of the davit-chains gave way, the stern dropped, and all three...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane
AEROPLANE CRASHED Lerwick, Shetlands—At 12.9 in the morning of January 3rd, 1947, an aero- plane could be heard flying round the town, and it dropped red flares. A strong southerly breeze was blowing, causing a rough sea, and as it appeared...
Coxswain James Bumble
Coxswain James Bumble of Sheringham, who also held the bronze medal for gallantry, died on the 5th of June, 1958. The service for which he was awarded his medal was carried out during the last war. The Canadian steamer Eaglescliffe Hall had...
Category: Obituaries
Galaxia
Fire dramaCoordination between the lifeboat and the Navy was the key to the successful operation to save a blazing Spanish trawler. Fire had broken out at around 3pm on Saturday, 27 January in the accommodation section of the ship, which had...
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Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 12.12 early on the morning of the 30th of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that two bathers were marooned on a sand- bank at Point Clear. The life-boat H.C.J., on temporary duty at the station, was launched at...