LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
Thanks and remembrance I, as a Shoreline member, am writing to you following the sad death of my brother, the international yachtsman Rob James. He died as the result of an accident while approaching Salcombe in his trimaran Colt Cars GB...
Category: Correspondence
The S.S. Fort Massac, of London
FEBRUARY 1ST - 3RD. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. About 6.40 in the evening the coastguard reported an SOS from a vessel which was sinking about two miles north-west of the Sunk Lightvessel.
The motor life-boat E.M.E.D. was...
Joika
South-East England Cromer, Norfolk. At 10.7 a.m. on nth March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Norwegian vessel jfoika of Oslo had been in collision 13 miles east-south-east of Cromer and had been badly damaged. The...
Zyava III
TWO TAKEN OFF LEAKING FISHING VESSEL Fleetwood, Lancashire. On the afternoon of the 24th September, 1962, several people reported that a vessel was aground between the nos. 6 and 4 buoys in the Wyre Channel, and a radio message to the same...
Proficient
DECEMBER 24TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
Five men of a salvage firm were at work on the motor fishing boat Proficient, of Lowestoft, which was under Admiralty control and which, a few days before, had gone ashore ahout 400...
Fundraising
Alan chips in Kind-hearted chip shop owner Alan Smith threw a lifeline to Kessock lifeboat in October when he donated an entire day's takings from his branch of Harry Ramsden's in Inverness. Alan hasn't forgotten that he owes...
Category: Articles
Bookshelf
Lifeboat station histories Wick Lifeboat by Ian Cassells published by Cluny Publishers at £3.50 Subtitled '150 Years of Tireless Service' this A5-size softback is a full and informative history of the saving of life at sea in...
Category: Articles
The Madeleine
At half-past four on the morning of Sunday, the 23rd October, a coastguardman, on the look-out near the quiet little seaside town of Clacton, saw a signal rocket fired from, the Gunfleet Floating Lightship, which told of a wreck on the...
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FEBRUARY 10TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
Red flares had been reported, but nothing was found and it was thought that a flare on land might have been mistaken for a flare at sea. - Rewards, £13 1s..
A Trawler (1)
DECEMBER 8TH. - STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
A trawler had been reported ashore near Sheshader, but of her crew of thirteen, two got to land in the trawler’s boat and the remainder were saved by a boat from the shore. - Rewards,...