LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fair Maiden
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 16th of June, 1956, the police informed the coxswain that a yacht was firing flares in Normans Bay. The life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched at 3.23 in a rough sea with a moderate...
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HUNGER CALL At 1.15 p.m. on 2ist December, 1964, the chairman of the branch was asked by the manager of Radio Invicta, a wireless transmitting station on Redsand Towers, if the life-boat would take food to the radio station as no other...
Boats
NOV. 23RD. - MARGATE, KENT. At 9.55 A.M. a message was received from the Ramsgate coastguard asking that the lifeboat should bc launched, go to the North Foreland, and stop all shipping as it was a dangerous area. A fresh S.S.W. wind was...
Notus and Sunshine
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—-A telephone message was received from the coastguard about 1.30 P.M. on the 18th April stating that a vessel was ashore half-a-mile south of the watch-house. In the absence of the Coxswain, the Assistant Coxswain...
Storm Vogel
Flooded boat FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE, Was told at 4 p.m. on March 18 that the fishing boat Storm Vogel was in distress and requesting assistance.
The lifeboat Friendly Forester was launched at 4.20. She made for the casualty...
Coxswain Thomas Cocking of St.Ives
Coxswain Thomas Cocking of St Ives, at the Royal Festival Hall last May to receive his second silver medal, signs the Knebworth and District branch's copy of Patrick Howarth's book In Danger's Hour for Mrs Hazel Entecott, branch... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Y.L.A. CHALLENGE
• An appeal from Commander F. R.
H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., deputy chairman of the R.N.L.I, and chairman of the Yachtsman's Life-boat Supporters' Association: 'By the end of July membership of the Y.L.A. had...
Category: Articles
Heather
Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— 19th January, 1938. At 2.35 P.M. the motor fishing boat Heather, of Filey, was reported overdue, and as it was not known in which direction she might be, the honorary secretary sent out twelve men in three...
Rapid
Soon after midnight on the 28th February, during a fresh gale from the S.E.
and a rough sea, the Coastguard watchman reported that a vessel was burning signals of distress in the roadstead. The coxswain of the Life-boat...
Fleetwing, of Newcastle
At midnight on the 13th, in reply to signals from the Gull Lightship, the Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins was launched, in a strong breeze at W.S.W., and proceeded under sail to the assistance of the barque Fleetwing, of Newcastle, bound...