LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
IRB Launches (1)
SOUTH-EASTERN DISTRICT Rescues by IRBs in April were undertaken by the following stations: Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 11.54 a.m. on i8th April, 1966, while the IRB was being exercised with the district inspector on board, the crew were...
Category: Services
Dedication: Offshore—Inshore
MOELFRE, JUNE 17 and BROUGHTY FERRY, JULY 17 BRILLIANT SUNSHINE and a fresh northerly wind building up white horses out at sea gave a sparkling day for the handing over ceremony and dedication of Moelfre's new 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat,...
Category: Inaugurations
Mail, of Alloa
On the 14th De- cember, during a gale from the S.W., a vessel was seen in distress off Looe Island.
The life-boat Oxfordshire stationed there j was quickly launched through a heavy surf | to her assistance, and...
The Caister Station Endangered
There have been two Life-boats at Caister, on the Norfolk coast, one for seventy, the other for sixty years, and they have the magnificent record of 1709 lives rescued from shipwreck.
These two boats lie on the open sandy...
Category: Articles
Thelma
Early on the after- noon of the 7th December the Coast- guard reported that a motor yacht west of the jetty appeared to be in distress.
A strong N.E. breeze was blowing with a heavy sea, and hail showers. The Motor...
Gondolier Princess and Flying Fish
TWO BOATS TOWED IN A ROUGH SEA Ramsgate, Kent.—At 9.45 on the night of the 21st of August, 1947» the coast- guard telephoned that flares had been seen three-quarters of a mile east-south- east of Kingsgate look-out, and the motor...
Nora, of Liverpool
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. — Shortly after 4 A.M. oil the 23rd November, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that Corsewall lightkeepers had reported a a vessel apparently in distress near Milleur Beacon. A S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough...
Tony
On the morning of the 25th February the local motor fishing boat Tony put to sea, with the life-boat coxswain and two other men on board. Later in the day the weather turned rough, and the second coxswain made enquiries for the boat. The...
A Meteor Aircraft (1)
Margate, Kent, and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 21st of January, 1954, the Margate coastguard told the Margate life-boat station that No. 19 Group R.A.F. at Plymouth had reported that a Meteor aircraft had crashed...
Mary and Surprise
Hastings, Sussex.—About half past six on the night of the 2nd of November, 1950, a message was received that flares had been seen about two and a half miles east of Hastings Harbour.
At 6.45 the life-boat M.T.C. was...