LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JANUARY 17TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.

At 3.53 P.M. the coastguard reported a small tug disabled and drifting in the Wash. A fresh N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and the weather was described as ”arctic.” The motor life...

APRIL 7TH. - CROMARTY. At 6.35 in the morning a message came from the R.A.F.

that several of their seaplanes had broken adrift from their moorings, with their crews aboard, that they had not enough boats to face the storm,...

NEWHAVEN.—On the morning of the 8th February the coastguard reported to the coxswain of the Life-boat that a vessel was ashore at Seaford. The crew were at once summoned and the Life-boat Michael Henry was launched at 3.50. A strong gale was...

Penlee, Cornwall.—About 1.15 in the afternoon, on the 15th of July, 1950, the Penzance coastguard telephoned that the trawler Barnet was drifting ashore about a mile east of Penzance lighthouse. She was engaged in the refloating operations...

Longhope, Orkneys.—At 10.30 on the night of the llth of April, 1955, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that the steam trawler Gava, of Aber- deen, wrhich had a crew of thirteen, had reported that she had gone ashore at Duncansby Head....

On the evening of the 15th August news was received that a small boat with a man and a woman on board had been seen in difficulties, drifting with the tide through Calf Sound. The honorary secretary engaged a motor boat and went in search...

Mrs Simons receives her cruise prize from Tony Smith, Senior Sales Executive of Travelscope, accompanied by volunteer Crew Members James Morris and Nick Prout and Tractor Driver Ricky Homes, in front of Bumham-on-Sea's Atlantic 75... - View image in PDF

(continuedfrom page 55) training ships Royalist, Sir Winston Churchill and Malcolm Miller, with merchant ships to the south and naval ships stretching away into the distant east. All morning a steady stream was sailing past Calshot as little...