LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat (1)
Margate, Kent - At 9.2 p.m. on ist May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that flashes had been reported by the police to be coming from a small boat near the south east Margate buoy and requested that the life-boat stand...
Marie May
Hythe and Dungeness (Kent).
At 6.30 in the evening of llth November, with a 70-mile an hour gale blowing from the S.W., a very heavy sea running, and poor visibility on account of heavy rain, the Coxswain at Hythe received...
Mr. R. B. Scott, Motor Mechanic at New Brighton
Mr. R. B. Scott, Motor Mechanic at New Brighton.
BY the death, on 23rd July at the age of sixty-two, of Mr. Kalph Brown Scott, Chief Motor Mechanic of the Life-boat at New Brighton on the Mersey, a Lifeboatman with a very...
Category: Obituaries
Aeron Belle
At 9.20 A.M. the same day the Life- boat was again launched to a vessel in •distress off the Head, the wind having changed to N.N.W. and increased to a strong gale. In her first attempt to get out of harbour the Life-boat was un- successful...
Scotland Community News
MACDUFF
SQUAREMEN SUPPORT
Ye Corporation O' Squaremen are supporting 17 local causes this year, and the volunteers at Macduff Lifeboat Station are delighted to be
one of those causes. A...
Category: Articles
Polly
NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.—On the morning of the 15th July a telephone message was received by the coastguard that a vessel was drifting to the westward with a signal of distress flying, and asking for the assistance of the Newquay...
D. L. Harper
The motor tanker, D. L. Harper, of Danzig, 12.350 tons, bound laden from Aruba, West Indies, to Hamburg, with five passen- gers and thirty-eight crew, struck the Crane Rocks, about half a mile north of Lizard Head, on the 20th June.
A Brave Schoolgirl
A Holiday at Skipsea LAST summer a fifteen-year-old school- girl was holidaying at Skipsea, near Bridlington. Her home was at Baildon near Shipley, and she was staying with her parents at Sea Cabin Bungalow, Green Lane, which stood near the...
Category: Articles
Australia
FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHEN BAY.—A telegram having been received from Tenby on the morning of the 30th March intimating that a vessel was showing signals of distress, the Life-boat City of Manchester was launched at 8.35 and proceeded to the...
Star of Freedom
Stornoway, Hebrides. At 6.50 on the morning of the 13th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the trawler Star of Freedom was drifting ashore with engine trouble four and a half miles west of Loch...