LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 3.40 A.M. on the 25th February the Coastguard watchman reported that he had seen signals of distress in the direction of the Newcombe Bank. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Thomas Simcox was promptly summoned and the Life-boat proceeded...

On the llth January a telephone message was received from the Coastguard stating that a vessel was ashore opposite the Saltfleet Coastguard station. A thick fog prevailed at the time, with a moderate breeze and choppy sea. The crew of the...

YACHT POUNDED AGAINST HARBOUR WALL Dover, Kent. At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 19th May, 1962, the eastern arm signal station informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Marie Hendrika was drifting into the full force of a westsouth-...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—Before daybreak on the 24th of November, 1955, the fishing boats Faith Star, Pilot Me and Success put to sea in worsening weather.

The Faith Star returned to harbourand at noon the no. 2 harbour pulling...

Hastings, Sussex. At eight o'clock on the evening of the 8th of August, 1960, the police informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel had towed an unexploded bomb on to the beach at the fishing stage. After discussion with the...

BY BREECHES BUOY Lerwick, Shetlands. At 1.4 a.m. on iyth January, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that they had fired a warning rocket and that a fishing vessel which had gone near the Ness of Sound had stopped and burnt a...

Walton and Frinton, Essex. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 22nd of October, 1957, the coastguard telephon- ed that the master of the Sunk light- vessel had reported that the yacht West Wind had made fast to the stern of the...

Poole - home of RNLI Headquarters - boasts the second largest natural harbour in the world. The station's lifeboats are situated off the quay - just by Poole lifting bridge, shown up in the main photo, on the crown of the... - View image in PDF