LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (67)
AUGUST 25TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
At 1.32 A.M. the coastguard reported an aeroplane down in the sea. The weather was calm. The motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Philpott was launched at 2 A.M. When she was off Ecclesbourne...
Gesine
The Life- boat James Stevens No. 13 performed an excellent service on the 14th April.
At 5.30 in the morning a message was received that a vessel was on the rocks at Westhaven, Carnoustie. With all haste the Life-boat...
H.M. Submarine Tuna and H.M. Examination Vessel Sedulous (1)
NOVEMBER 2ND. - BLYTH, AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 9.45 in the morning, the Blyth coastguard reported a ship ashore half a mile south of St. Mary’s Lighthouse. The sea was slight, with a light north-east wind blowing, but there was a...
Audacious
— At 8.30 P.M. on the 30th September the Life- boat James Stevens No. 9 was called out in answer to rockets from the Nore light-vessel. On reaching the " Nore," the Master reported that he had been repeating signals made from the...
Ariel, of Truro
After the Moses life-boat had returned to her station from the wreck of the Lizzie, a vessel was seen in distress in the offing. The boat was launched to her assistance; on reaching her it was found that she was in a leaky state, and likely...
Chester
The sloop Chester- field, of Lynn, whilst bound to Hull, laden with gravel, stranded on the Inner Sinks on the 9th September.
Coxswain Cross immediately assembled his crew and proceeded to the vessel in the boarding...
Viking Deeps
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—About half past four on the morning of the 15th of February, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a ship was showing flares off Bayble, seven miles from Stornoway. At 5.15 the life-boat William and Harriet was...
A Fishing Boat
On the 6th January two members of the Life- boat's crew were out fishing in one of the small boats belonging to Skegness, when a north-westerly gale sprang up, and shortly after three o'clock in the after- noon their mast carried...
Pilot Me
TWICE IN TWO DAYS Whitby, Yorkshire.—, Shortly before mid-day on the 14th of November, 1947, the owner of the local fishing vessel Pilot Me reported that he had been told by wireless that her engine had failed. He had some new bolts being-...
Rosa Alba
ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.—In response to signals from the Cork Light-ship the Life-boat Aldeburgh was launched at 6.18 P.M. on the 22nd March, in a strong N.N.W. wind and heavy sea. Shortly after she had left, a telephone message arrived reporting...