LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A R.A.F. Aeroplane (1)
OCT. 19TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON, AND PADSTOW, CORNWALL. A message was received that a R.A.F. aeroplane had come down in the sea, and the Clovelly life-boat was launched at 10.20 P.M. to search between Hartland Point and Bideford. A N.E. wind...
The S.S. Dromara
FEBRUARY 14TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At l.6 P.M. the coastguard reported the S.S. Dromara, of Belfast, in difficulties off Wick Bay, and the motor life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched at 1.30 P.M., taking a pilot with...
Kabalo and Flandres
FEBRUARY 12TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 7.32 A.M. the Deal coastguard reported that a collision had occurred near the Fork Buoy.
A fresh southerly wind was blowing, with amoderate sea. It was snowing. The motor life-boat Charles...
Brabant and Empire Commerce
JUNE 9TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 12.27 P.M. a message was received from the Margate coastguard that a vessel had been mined at the N.E. Spit Buoy. It was calm and the sea smooth. At 12.30 P.M. the motor life-boat The Lord Southborough (Civil...
Marocz
NOVEMBER 4TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.
At seven in the morning the coastguard reported a ship ashore at Rottingdean.
A strong south-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian...
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The storm prophet
by Hector Macdonald
Review by Carol Waterkeyn
This extraordinary novel is set...
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OLD LIFEBOAT, NEW COUNTRY
Some years after I had retired as Mallaig lifeboat Coxswain/Mechanic, I discovered that my old Arun class lifeboat (pictured) had been sold to the Icelandic Rescue Service. So, after a deal of...
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The Fisher Boy, of Wick
JANUARY 24TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 12.5 in the afternoon a fisherman telephoned from Melvick that a fishing boat was in distress about seven miles east of Port Skerra, and the motor life-boat...
Adur II, of Liverpool (1)
AUGUST 10TH. - CLOVELLY, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON. At three in the afternoon the Hartland Point coastguard telephoned to the Clovelly life-boat station that a small tug had foundered a mile northwest of the point. A moderate north-west breeze...
A Boston Aeroplane's Dinghy
JUNE 27TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At 12.7.P.M. the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea off Chapel, and the motor lifeboat Anne Allen was launched at 12.37 P.M.
A light N.E...