LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Albas
High and dry on the Goodwins RAMSGATE HONORARY SECRETARY Was informed by Dover Straits Coastguard at 2025 on Thursday, September 11, 1975, that, following a number of reports of red flares sighted over the Goodwin Sands, Walmer lifeboat had...
Coxswain James Cable, of Aldeburgh, Suffolk
James Cable, ex-Coxswain of the Aldeburgh (Suffolk) Station and a member of the Branch Committee, died on 5th May of this year, at the age of 78. Few, if any, Coxswains have had more brilliant careers, and his name was known far beyond the...
Category: Obituaries
Mr Reg Bray
Mr Reg Bray, chairman of Crawley branch.
Mr Bray was associated with the branch for over 20 years, many of them as chairman. He was awarded a silver badge in 1984..
Category: Obituaries
Duchess of Leith
CURIOUS INCIDENT OFF SHERINGHAM Sheringham and Cromer, Norfolk. At about five o'clock on the afternoon of Thursday the 19th September, 1963, the Sheringham coxswain launched his crab boat to investigate a cabin cruiser, Duchess of Leith,...
Five Years and Six Months of War
Since the war began our life-boats have rescued 6,272 lives. That is more lives rescued in five years and six months of war than in the last seventeen years of peace..
Category: Articles
Dolphin
Fishing vessel sinking ORANGE SMOKE observed one mile east of Chapel Point and six miles north of the lifeboat station was reported to Skegness honorary secretary at 1557 on Tuesday, June 29.
In good visibility and with a...
John Wesley
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 1.31 on the afternoon of the 26th of March, 1955, the Seahouses coast- guard telephoned that the local fishing boat John Wesley, which had a crew of three, had broken down six miles south-south-east of...
The Ketch-Rigged Yacht Thelma II, of Beaumaris
Portrush, Co. Antrim. — On the morning of the 1st September the auxiliary ketch-rigged yacht Thelma II, of Beaumaris, carrying a crew of three, left Portrush for Liverpool under sail.
Her engine was out of action. A very...
The S.S. Carricklee
On the 7th De- cember the s.s. Carricklee, of Sunderland, outward bound from Fremington to Sunderland with a cargo of clay, got into difficulties and ran ashore on Middle Ridge. She was carrying a crew of eight, and a dog. The coastguard at...
Norian
Plymouth, Devon - At 7.43 p.m. on 27th September, 1966, news was received that the yacht Norian had broken down in heavy seas twenty two miles south south east of Eddystone, and was asking for the assistance of a tug and a life-boat. The...