LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bronwin (1)
Newhaven, Sussex. At 6.28 p.m. on 6th September, 1965, the coastguard reported that red flares had been seen off the Martello tower at Seaford. There was a moderate south-westerly breeze with a corresponding sea. The tide was...
A Fishing Vessel
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 7.40 a.m. on 30th October, 1965, the coastguard reported that a small fishing vessel had fired red flares from a position half a mile east of the harbour. The life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant was launched at...
Fishing Cobles (2)
DEC. 26TH. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBER.
LAND. During the morning a strong N.E.
breeze was blowing with a rough sea, and anxiety was felt for the safety of three fishing cobles. There was a heavy swell at the...
De Ruyter
JANUARY 10TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 2.8 A.M. the coastguard reported a ship ashore in Cymeran Bay, near Rhosneigr.
A N.E. breeze was blowing, with a smooth sea. It was bitterly cold. The motor life-boat...
H.M.S. Speedy
DECEMBER 18TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
A request was received from the medical officer of H.M.S. Speedy for the life-boat to go out to her for a man with scarlet fever.
At 1.15 in the afternoon the motor...
An R.A.F. Seaplane
J UNE 2 1 S T. - WICK, CAITHNESSbound SHIRE. Shortly after 6 P.M. the coastguard reported that an R.A.F. seaplane was on the sea one and a half miles east of Occumster, and was drifting, with her engines stopped, towards Clythness. A fresh S...
Fishing Boats (1)
SEPTEMBER 18TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At six in the afternoon Whitby fishing boats and boats of the Scottish fishing fleets put out in moderate weather, but by nine o’clock it had worsened and the boats turned back. A strong...
An Aeroplane (114)
AUGUST 30TH. - APPLEDORE, DEVON.
At 3.45 P.M. a message was received from the resident naval officer at Appledore, that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea between the Bar and Haire Point off Saunton Sands, and the motor...
The S.S. Cid
WALMEH.—The s.s. Cid, of and for Barcelona, laden with coal from the Tyne, stranded on the Goodwin Sands in a dense fog on the morning of the 6th July. Signals were fired by the South Sand Head Light-vessel in response to which the Life-boat...
Adelaide
When the brigantine Adelaide, of Fowey, with a cargo of coal for Par, was anchored in ParBayonthe nightof the 12thFebruary a S.S.W. gale sprang up. The vessel dragged her anchors, losing one and finally bringing up in shallow water, close...