LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Morn
Margate, Kent.—At about noon on the 10th June, 1939, a yacht was seen by a life-boatman ashore on the Margate Sands. A light S.E. breeze was blowing, the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was...
(Right) South Africa: Hubert Davies One of the National Sea Rescue Institute's 10M Lifeboats In Table Bay
(Right) South Africa: Hubert Davies, one of the National Sea Rescue Institute's 10m lifeboats, in Table Bay.. - View image in PDF
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Teddy Bear
Walmer, Kent. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor boat Teddy Bear, which was two miles east of the Goodwin Fork buoy, had engine trouble and her crew...
The S.S. Corfield
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.
—At 9.10 on the evening of the 20th of July, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Corfield, of London, needed a doctor to attend a sick man.
As no other boat...
None (1)
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 2.55 in the afternoon, on the 27th of July, 1951, the Wallasey Police telephoned a report that five people had been cut off by the tide on the North Bank.
Two beach patrolmen were swimming out and...
A Hundred Years Ago
Youghal, Ireland.—On the 8th February, the Norwegian barque Galatea ran on shore on the bar at the entrance of Youghal harbour, the captain having mistaken the port for Queenstown : a gale of wind was blowing at the time from the south, and...
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A Motor Boat (1)
Blyth, Northumberland. At 8.42 on the evening of the 18th of August, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small motor boat was drifting on to Seaton rocks. The life- boat Winston Churchill (Civil Service No. 8) was...
Two Salvage Lighters
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DOWN. At 2.50 in the afternoon, the Admiralty salvage officer at Bangor reported, through the coastguard, that two salvage lighters, with crews on board, were drifting ashore in Belfast...
Daniel
LLANDDWYN.—The smack Daniel, of Bangor, was seen approaching the bar while a strong breeze was blowing from the S.W., with a rough sea and thick weather, on the evening of the 1st February. The vessel was at first steering for the South...