LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Winifred and Shawford (1)
Glacton-on-Sea and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.51 on the evening of the 27th of September, 1956, the Clacton coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in need of help off no. 11 Barrow buoy. At 9.10 the Clacton life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring...
Vellum awards
Brighton Helm Mark Smith has been accorded the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum for his part in saving a man’s life in near-gale conditions on 26 May 2011.
The man had gone overboard from the yacht...
Category: Articles
A Liberty Ship, The American Motor Vessel George Hawley
JANUARY 21ST. - SENNEN COVE, AND PENLEE, CORNWALL. At 3.15 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities wanted the Sennen Cove life-boat to go to a vessel four miles south-bywest of the Longships. A light northerly...
Battling in a boiling torrent
Experience and compassion combined when three volunteers faced the toughest test
The call came at 8.19am on Easter Sunday 2012. All that Damien Bolton, Nicola Bradbury and Matthew Main knew was...
Category: Articles
lona, of Belfast
At 3.40 P.M. on the 4th March, in consequence of signals from the Bock Lighthouse at the entrance of the Mersey, the tubular Life-boat Willie and Arthur started in tow of the steam-tug Wonder for the Pormby Spit. A moderate gale was blowing...
Lord Tennyson
At 8.30 P.M., on the 22nd January, the Coastguard at Rye Harbour reported that a vessel in the bay was making distress signals.
Without delay the Life-boat John William Dudley was launched and proceeded to the craft,...
A Motor Cruiser
Whitby, Yorkshire - At 10.10 p.m.
on 6th October, 1966, the police informed the honorary secretary that a motor cruiser had been reported missing from Whitby harbour. On the morning ofyth October the coastguard informed the...
Nicola Dawn
Margate, Kent. At 12.44 early on the morning of the 23rd December, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen in the Gore channel. This was confirmed later, and the position was given as four miles...
Two Cromer Life-Boatmen Drowned
ON the morning of 27th July eight crab boats put out from Cromer, with a gale blowing. The sea was moderate, but heavy for small boats. It got heavier while the men were attending to the crab pots. The coastguard had them under observation,...
Category: Obituaries
Adalina
Soon after mid- day on the 28th April, during a S.W.
gale accompanied by a rough sea, it was reported that a vessel was ashore on the Goodwins. The Life-boat Brad- ford proceeded to the Sands and found the fishing vessel...