LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alice and Ella
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 1.45 p.m. on 4th July, 1965, a message was received that a fishing boat had broken down near Canvey Island, and at 2.10 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched. There was a moderate...
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BOY FELL OVER CLIFFS Whitby, Yorkshire. At 6.20 p.m. on igth October, 1965, the honorary secretary was told that a boy had been reported as having fallen over the cliffs at Ravenscar. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 6.40 in a...
Quinquereme (1)
SECOND CALL TO YACHT At 7 p.m. on 8th May, 1964, the honorary secretary was informed that the yacht Quinquereme had broken away from her moorings and was adrift in the middle of the straits—a potential danger to shipping. As the two local...
A Canoe (1)
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 7.11 p.m. on 23rd August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a canoe with one person on board was stranded on Scroby sands.
At 7.23 the inshore rescue boat...
Viking
Two saved after ten-hour service in south westerly gale Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's Waveney class lifeboatBarham was involved in an arduous, ten-hour service to a yacht on 10 July 1988. The service, in gale force conditions, has been...
Green grant
The newly refurbished Grace Darling museum in Bamburgh, Northumberland, has proved a very popular tourist attraction. But it’s not just the exhibits that are attracting plaudits. The Low Carbon Buildings Programme has awarded the museum a...
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Stations Closed.
The Dover station was temporarily closed at the beginning of October, 1940, as the arrangements of the Admiralty made a life-boat station there unnecessary. The life-boat was taken over by the Admiralty a month later to be used in rescuing...
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March (1)
MARCH MEETING BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE. At 3.15 in the afternoon of the 3rd of February, 1945, an object was seen by the coastguard, about three-quarters of a mile off shore. The weather was fine, with a south-west wind ; the sea was calm. The...
Category: Services
Louci Gougy
MAY 26TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 12.10 A.M. a message was received from the South Goodwin Light-vessel through theDeal coastguard that a vessel was ashore on the sands to the N.E. by E. A N.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor...
A Pinnace (1)
OCT. 5TH. - LERWICK, AND AITH, SHETLANDS. In the morning of the 4th October a Royal Air Force aeroplane came down on the sea about twenty-five miles N.E. of the N.E. corner of Unst Island, and a pinnace went out to her help. On the following...