LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Merchant Shipping (Carriage of Grain) Act, 1880
PERHAPS Mr. Plimsoll, in the interest of Saving Life at Sea, has done no more useful thing than pressing on the atten- tion of Parliament the necessity for addi- tional precautions and legal requirements to prevent the shifting of grain and...
Category: Articles
Fishing Cobles (3)
—• Owing to the N.E. wind on the 16th March freshening suddenly, and bringing up a heavy sea, two of the fishing cobles were in great danger when at sea for the purpose of hauling their crab pots.
The Coxswain of the...
October
Launches 50 Lives rescued 116 OCTOBER 1ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At noon the Gorleston coastguard reported a drifter on Scroby Sands, flying a distress signal. A light north-westerly breeze was blowing, with a swell. The...
Category: Services
Seaspray
Skegness, Lincolnshire - At 4.5 p.m.
on 14th March, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulties aboutone mile off Skegness pier. The lifeboat Charles Fred Grantham was launched...
Ex-Lifeboat Saved
William and Kate Johnson, rescued by a joint operation involving the Holyhead lifeboat, the Trearddur Bay Atlantic 75 Dorothy Selina, the Sea King helicopter from RAF Valley and Holyhead Coastguard. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
White Cloud II
On the 20th July news was received from the coastguard that a small speed-boat appeared to be in distress about three miles W.S.W.
from Bill Tower look-out. The occu- pants were waving a coat or flag. The motor life-boat...
Swimming for Swanage
The Reading branch of the British Sub Aqua Club visit Swanage at least once a month all the year round, and this year they decided to give the station half the sponsorship money raised from a threemile swim in the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (114)
AUGUST 31ST. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. An aeroplane had crashed over the Naze, and the pilot was seen to leave the machine by parachute, but he could not be found, and it was learnt later that he had come down on land. - Rewards, £6...
An Aeroplane (124)
AUGUST 20TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea in flames six miles N.W. of Cromer, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £17 10s. 6d..
October
Launches 74. Lives rescued 140.
OCTOBER 1ST - 22ND. - CROMER, NORFOLK. During the month both of the Cromer life-boats were launched several times and gave help to the S.S. Teddington, which had stranded after enemy attack...
Category: Services