LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jean Ann.
Shoreham, Sussex - On 22nd September, 1968, the life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant was launched to the yacht Jean Ann. A full account of this service appears on page 557..
Gem and Tut
ENGLISH AND DANISH FISHING BOATS IN DISTRESS Runswick, and Whitby, Yorkshire.—At half-past one in the afternoon of the 17th of December, 1947, information was telephoned from Whitby to Runs- wick that the fishing boat Gem, belong- ing...
Yacht Auriga and Haliday
AT 7.15 on the evening of 22nd November, a wireless message was received at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, from the Sunk Lightship, reporting that the Lightship could see flares four to five miles to the north-west. A whole gale was blowing from...
Outboard: Speed and Power
ATLANTIC 21 AND D CLASS inshore lifeboats, out on trials, are a familiar sight in the Solent; testing and proving the vast amount of detailed development work which, over the past 15 years or so, has been quietly going ahead at the RNLI...
Category: Articles
"Tar and Grease."
Hand over Hand Chanty.
BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CRAUFUKD, R.N., honorary secretary of the Dungeness life-boat station.
" The items expended on this work were tar and grease."—Honorary Secretary's...
Category: Songs
Culzean Castle and Aratus
At about 10.45 A.M. on the 3rd August two vessels came into collision in the Cockle Gat during a strong S.W. breeze and a moderate sea. They both hoisted signals of distress, in response to which the Life-boat Qodsend was launched and sailed...
Alice Watts and Gladsy
Shortly after 10 A.M. on the llth January, the Coast- guard reported that a vessel off Gorton was dragging her anchors and driving towards the beach. As the position of the vessel was one of considerable danger, the Life-boat Kentwett was...
Ethel and Mother's Joy
The Coastguard reported about 4 P.M. on 4th December that the two local fishing boats Ethel and Mother's Joy were in distress ofi Seaham, and a few minutes later the Motor Life-boat Elliot Galer put out.
A whole...
Wind Rush and Ariel
TWO YACHTS TAKEN IN TOW New Brighton, Cheshire. At 7.20 on the evening of the 22nd June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground between the revetment and Taylor's bank. The life-boat White Star, on...
Brighton and Shoreham Harbour:
Brighton and Shoreham Harbour: Early in the evening of September 15, 1983, when a force 8 gale, gusting to strong gale, force 9, was blowing from the south west and the sea was very rough, a swimmer was reported in difficulties between... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs