LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Edam, of Rotterdam
NOVEMBER 18TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.10 in the afternoon a steamer had been seen to go ashore on the Goodwin Sands. A moderate north-east wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was...
Surfboards
Surfers saved in lightning rescue dashAs senior helmsman Aubrey Diggle was leaving the boathouse on the morning of 23 February 2002, a surfer reported that two of his colleagues were being swept away. Looking out to sea, Aubrey instantly...
Glamis
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 9.15 on the night of the 17th of June, 1950, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Glamis, of Dundee, four miles to the northward, had wirelessed for a doctor. At 9.32, with the honorary secretary, Major E. Peter...
Cromer Bowman's Gallantry. Attempt to Rescue a Drowning Man
Attempt to Rescue a Drowning Man.
ON the morning of 17th February last a number of fishing boats from Shering- ham, on the coast of Norfolk, went out after whelks. Before they returned a heavy sea had got up, and the...
Category: Services
The Eyemouth Motor Fishing Boat Spes Bona (1)
MARCH 13TH. - ST. ABBS, and EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE. The Royal Observer Corps saw signals of distress and reported them to the police, who informed the St. Abbs Life-boat station at 2.30 in the afternoon. A whole northerly gale was blowing,...
Ruth of London
On the 17th Octo- ber, the brig Ruth, of London, went ashore on Saunton Sands during squally weather.
The George and Catherine life-boat put off and rescued the crew of 9 men. The cap- tain of the vessel communicated to the...
An Aeroplane (143)
SEPTEMBER 16TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. An aeroplane was heard to crash into the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £4 7s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (57)
DECEMBER 27TH. - KILLYBEGS, CO.
DONEGAL. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found.
- Rewards, £13 2s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (7)
JANUARY 7TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At the request of the naval authorities the life-boat went to a spot where a Coastal Command aeroplane was reported to be circling over either an aeroplane or bodies in the sea, but she...