LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lightvessel Breaks Adrift
AT 9.49 on the evening of the 12th November, 1961, the Deal coastguard informed the Walmer honorary secre- tary that the East Goodwin lightvessel, which had been buffeted by heavy seas, had broken adrift from her moorings and was driving...
Category: Services
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First ever bravery award for an RNLI lifeguard Mark Johnson made RNLI history in December when he was awarded the Thanks on Vellum after saving the life of a man who was being washed out to sea. Mark is the first RNLI beach lifeguard to...
Oceanic II
A LONG SEARCH Margate, Kent, and Walton-on-the- Naze, Essex.—At 2.50 in the after- noon of the 24th of May, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that the Ameri- can steamer John Lefarge had reported that she had collided with and sunk a fishing...
Brothers
On the 26th November last the brig Brothers, laden with coal, ran on shore on the north side of the Tyne, when the South Shields life-boat quickly proceeded to her, and rescued her crew of six persons, taking them safely into the...
Saga
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—On the afternoon of the 13th February, while a moderate gale from the N.E. was blowing and the sea was rough, a vessel was seen ashore on the Sunk Sand. The Life-boat Albert Edward was launched at 5.35, and found that the...
British Inventor
JUNE 13TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET, At 7.50 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the oil tanker British Inventor, of London, 7,000 tons, had been torpedoed or mined near the Shambles Lightvessel and was sinking. The weather was...
Ianthe
During a mode- rate north-easterly gale, with a rough sea, on the 25th October, a vessel was observed - to be in danger of drifting ashore, as her anchors were not holding, and the Life-boat George Leicester was promptly dispatched to her...
Your Letters
Enthusiastic thank-you I would like to use THE LIFEBOAT to say a big thank you to the coxswains and crews of the lifeboat stations around our coast for making lifeboat enthusiasts so welcome and showing such hospitality and interest when...
Category: Correspondence
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Trapped_men rescued from pier supports Sometimes the need to save a life over-rides all other considerations...
When Eastbourne lifeboat station heard that a person was trapped on a narrow ledge under Eastbourne Pier it was...
Rian
On the morning of the 24th November the coastguard tele- phoned that a vessel was ashore at West Runton. The sea was smooth, but there was a dense fog. The motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 11.30 A.M. She found the motor barge...