LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FEBRUARY 9TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.

At 8.45 A.M. the naval base reported a vessel in difficulties off the harbour entrance.

The weather was foggy, with a light northerly wind, and the sea was calm. At 9...

On the 2nd April, at daylight, a vessel, which afterwards proved to be the brig Velocity, of Sunderland, was perceived to be ashore on Sizewell Bank, the wind blow- ing hard from S.S.W. at the time. The Thorpe life-boat was quickly launched...

JUST after midnight of 28th April, the driver and fireman of a railway train entering Berwick-on-Tweed reported that they had seen signals of distress close in shore. The railway station rang up the Coast Guard, who informed the Life-Boat...

FRAMED letters of thanks signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., have been sent to Mr. C. J. Bean and and Mr. R. Swalwell, the crew of the Scarborough IRB, for their efforts when a child...

TWO LIFE-BOATS IN NIGHT SEARCH Longhope, and Stromness, Orkneys.

At 8.17 on the evening of the 27th May, 1963, the motor mechanic informed the Stromness honorary secretary that the family of a man who had gone out in the...

ON the evening of Christmas Day the Life-boat at St. Ives was launched in response to signals from the Godrevy Lighthouse. The Boat was launched over the soft sand with considerable difficulty, some of the seventy-five launchers going into...

IN the last issue of The Lifeboat an account was given of services in which four different vessels had twice, within a short time, been helped by the same Life-boat.

Since then a vessel has been twice helped within four...

LYBSTER, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. At 10 o’clock in the morning of the 4th of December, 1945, three men in the motor fishing boat Seaflower, of Wick, had completed hauling their lobster creels, when their boat shipped a sea which stopped the engine....