LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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CAISTER, NORFOLK.—The No. 2 Lifeboat Beauchamp was called out on service on the morning of the 23rd January and was launched at 4.20, signals of distress having been shown on the north part of the Barber Sands. On arriving there the fishing...
A Small Open Boat
At 3.30 P.M. on the 31st October the Coastguard received a message from Broadstairs stating that a small open boat, with one man in her, was out at sea and drifting towards the Goodwin Sands. As a strong northerly breeze was blowing...
Fishing Cobles
On the 7th May seven of the cobles belonging to Ramborougb. were working their launched and, in tow of a tug, proceeded to the vessel. There was a heavy sea on the Sands, and the Marie Lane lay alongside the steamer from 11...
Demaris
On the 26th January at 7.35 A.M the Gun- fleet Light-house commenced to fire guns signifying that a vessel was on the sands, and within ten minutes the Life- boat James Stevens No. 14 was on her way to help those on board. The Life- boat had...
Kyle Prince
Holyhead, Anglesey.—On the night of the 8th October, 1938,the City of Bradford I, doing temporary duty at Holyhead, went out in a gale to the steamer Kyle Prince, of Liverpool, and rescued her crew of nine.—Rewards, The thanks of the...
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HOLY ISLAND WITHOUT FOOD Holy Island, Northumberland.—By the 15th of March, 1947, with the roads blocked by sriow, no bread or other provisions had been received at Holy Island for nearly a week and it was decided that the life-boat should...
Thyra
Early on the morn- ing of the 24th November the coast- guard told the coxswain that they had under observation a small vessel which was drifting towards the shore in Walpole Bay, east of Margate. The coxswain went on to the cliffs and saw...
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Newhaven, Sussex.—At 4.20 on the afternoon of the 7th of June, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that some boys had been cut off by the tide at Crow- link, and at 4.40 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched.
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Libera
Poolbeg, Co. Dublin.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 28th of August, 1954, the Dublin Port and Docks Board telephoned to say the Poolbeg light- house-keeper had reported that two men in a small yacht near North Bull lighthouse were...
Golden Galleon
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 12.45 early on the morn- ing of the 18th of July, 1955, the Great Yarmouth police reported that the motor pleasure boat Golden Galleon, with one hundred and twenty-two passengers on board, had run...