LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Provider
Workington, Cumberland - At 9.15 a.m. on 27th September, 1958, the coastguard sent an anticipatory message to the coxswain tha the fishing boat Provider, with two men on board, which had left Harrington on the previous afternoon, was overdue...
Sujan III
Aldeburgh, Suffolk - At 1.40 a.m. on 14th May, 1967, news was received that a small yacht was drifting off the Sizewell bank with her engines out of action. The life-boat Alfred and Patience Gottwald was launched at 2.10 in a fresh north...
An Aeroplane (14)
FEBRUARY 27TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
At 3.40 P.M. an aeroplane crashed in the sea about two miles N.E. of the life-boat station, and life-boatmen standing by at the boathouse saw part of it above water. Sevenminutes later the...
An Aeroplane (143)
OCTOBER 28TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At about 2 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that a British bomber had crashed n e a r S k e g n e s s P i e r . A l i g h t , v a r i a b l e northerly wind was blowing, and the sea was...
The Longshore Fishing Boat Unity, of Lowestoft and Another Boat
APRIL 29TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 4.20 in the afternoon it was reported by fishing boats returning from the fishing grounds that the engines of two other boats had broken down off Southwold. A northnorth- west gale was...
White Heather II
AUGUST 29TH. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 6.12 in the evening the coastguard reported that a motor boat was making distress signals three miles east of Cresswell village. A strong south-easterly breeze was blowing, with a...
The Coningbeg Lightship
MARCH 23RD. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
A telegram was received at 5.30 in the afternoon asking that the life-boat might be used to bring off a sick man from the Coningbeg Lightship. The weather was too bad for an ordinary...
A Speed Boat
Not under command A MESSAGE came to Yarmouth Coastguard from Norfolk Police at 1700 on Wednesday August 12, 1981, to say that a speedboat was spinning round and round out of control off South Beach, Heacham, and a child had been hit; an...
Deli
Newhaven, Sussex. — At 6.55 in the evening, on the 17th of September, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht about two miles to westward and a mile off shore, was drifting eastwards.
She seemed to be out of control....
Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calen- dar.
The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture below. It is a photograph of the Whitby No. 1 life- boat leaving harbour on the 15th of...
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