LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LOWESTOPT, SUFFOLK.—Shortly before 8 P.M. on the 20th July a trawler, when trying to make Pakefield Gatway, struck on the N.E. part of the Newcome sands.

The coxswain of the Life-boat observed the accident, assembled the...

Fowey, Cornwall. At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 12th of September, 1958, the coastguard at Polruan in- formed the honorary secretary that the coastguard at Charlestown had gone to- help a young woman who had been cut off by the tide about...

ENGINE DIFFICULTIES At 5 p.m. on 30th August, 1964, the watchman on the east pier told the coxswain that a motor launch had broken down in the smooth seas just off the Quern buoy. At 5.10 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out into a...

JULY 6TH - .WALMER, KENT. At 12.50 P.M. a message was received from the Deal coastguard that a sailing boat with five people on board was flying an oilskin in her rigging near Deal Bank Buoy. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough...

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DOVER.—In the autumn of 1853, a new life-boat was stationed, at Dover by the Dover Humane Society to replace their old one. This boat was constructed by Mr.

CLARKSON, of a material which he has patented, composed of...

At 6.45 A.M.

on the 19th April information was given to the Coxswain of the Life-boat, Samuel Plimsoll that a vessel was ashore on the Newcome Sands. He immediately proceeded to the beach, and seeing the vessel's...

Twenty-six rescued HM COASTGUARD at Shoreham MRSC telephoned the honorary secretary of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat station at 0817 on Monday January 21 asking that the lifeboat be placed on standby; a merchant vessel, the 3,500-ton Greek...