LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Boats
On the 29th of July, 1956, life-boats from Dover and Dungeness, Kent, and Selsey, Sussex, put out to the help of a number of vessels in distress. A full account of these services for which, among other distinctions conferred, the silver...
Elleana
Wells, Norfolk.—About 11.40 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that the motor yacht Elleana, of Great Yarmouth, appeared to be in difficulties outside the harbour. The life-boat Cecil Paine was launched at noon...
Roseland
TRAWLER WAS LEAKING St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 12.15 p.m. on 7th July, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that the trawler Roseland, which had a crew of six, was leaking badly and needed help. There was a choppy sea with a fresh...
A Motor Boat (2)
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 5.25 p.m. on 2nd July, 1965, a small motor boat was seen to be in difficulties with engine trouble just inside the harbour mouth. At 5.32 the IRB launched in a gentle north-westerly breeze and slight sea. She...
IRB
North Sunderland, Northumberland - At 7.56 a.m. on 28th July, 1966, the IRB seemed to have broken down on a service call to the tanker Ross Cleveland.
The life-boat Grace Darling was launched at 8 o'clock in a light...
Picton Seaton
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides - At 10.45 a-m- on I9t^ July, 1967, the lifeboat R. A. Colby Cubbins No. 3 was launched in a gentle south westerly breeze and a moderate sea to stand by the trawler Picton Seaton, which had gone ashore when...
Octopus
Hastings' 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Fairlight, with Coxswain Frederick White at the helm, tows the Dutch yacht Octopus towards Rye Harbour during a force 6 south-south-easterly gale and in rough seas on July 19, 1987. Rye Harbour's...
An Admiralty Trawler
JULY 22ND. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 1.45 P.M. the coastguard reported that an Admiralty trawler had been blown up off the end of the breakwater. The weather was fine with a calm sea. The motor life-boat A.E.D. was launched...
An Aeroplane (57)
JULY 3 0TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 1.47 A.M. a local resident telephoned that an aeroplane had come down in flames off Cley, and the motor life-boat Foresters Centenary was launched at 3.42 A.M.
The sea...
The Record Month by Month
1943 January . 32 76 February . 34 55 March . 33 42 April . . 23 10 May . . 32 24 June . . 29 9 July . . 27 15 August . 41 92 September . 29 42 October . 30 19 November . 49 31 December . 52 54 - - - 5 - - - 3 - - - 3 Totals . 411 469 Number...
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