LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
John Mikle
The steam trawler John Meikle, of North Shields, when homeward bound from fishing on the 13th October, stranded half a mile to the north of Newbiggin Point, in a very heavy fog, a moderate S.E. gale and rough sea. Information of the casualty...
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Lifeboat Services
South Eastern Division Boarding boat rescue from saltings REQUESTING THE LAUNCHING of Calshot lifeboat at 2207 on Thursday, January 29, HM Coastguard told the honorary secretary that at 2054 a red flare had been reported in Ashlett Creek and...
Category: Services
Yacht Symphony II
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 7.15 on the morning of the 19th of June, 1953, the Needles coastguard rang up to say that the motor vessel Austerity hadwirelessed that she had the ten-ton sloop yacht Symphony II, with a crew of six, in tow about...
Women's Work By Ray Kipling
Women's Work . . .
. . . IN THE RNLI IT IS NEVER DONE.
by Ray Kipling DEPUTY PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER, RXLI '/ don't know where we would have been sometimes without the ladies. No credit would...
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October (1)
NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. Four men were out fishing in the motor fishing boat Little Old Lady on the 14th of July, 1943, and at about 8.30 in the morning saw a parachute from a Thunderbolt aeroplane floating down about two miles south of Peacehaven....
Category: Services
Four Generations Were Involved In Seaview, Isle of Wight, Flag Day Last Summer. Amanda and Jeremy Millett (Above), on Holiday, Spent Four Hours Walking the Foreshore
Four generations were involved in Seaview, Isle of Wight, flag day last summer. Amanda and Jeremy Millett (above), on holiday, spent four hours walking the foreshore, helped by their parents and grandparents, Mr and Mrs P. G. Wickens. Their... - View image in PDF
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Boys stranded rr WAS AN HOUR before high water on the afternoon of Sunday July 20, 1986, when the honorary secretary of Westonsuper- Mare lifeboat station was contacted by Swansea Coastguard to be told that two boys were trapped by the tide...
Roskva
On the 21st of January, 1955, the Cloughey life-boat rescued eleven men from the M.V. Roskva, of Bergen.
For a full account of this service and the awards made, see page 53..
Alpheta
On the 21st November, at 9 P.M., it was reported that a vessel was ashore on Bembridge Ledge. The wind was blowing a moderate gale from S.W. at the time, accompanied by thick rain. The Life-boat went off, as did also two fishing-boats; the...