LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Providence
Margate, Kent.—During the evening of the 23rd of July, 1948, the sister of the skipper of the local fishing vessel Providence reported that the Providence had gone out fishing early that morning and was long overdue. The coast- guard was...
Carol Sandra (1)
Fishing boats wrecked TWO GERMAN STUDENTS, walking on the cliffs near Breil Nook on Flamborough Head on the morning of Monday, May7, 1984, smelt diesel oil and, looking into the water, saw what appeared to be the overturned hull of a...
October (1)
OCTOBER MEETING FOLKESTONE, KENT. About mid-day on the 26th August, 1940, an aeroplane was seen down in the sea a mile from Copt Point,and three men put out in a rowing boat and succeeded in rescuing one German airman, who was transferred to...
Category: Services
Tsunami
141 hour service in severe gale A MESSAGE FROM THE YACHT Coronade to the Sunk Pilot Cutter, saying that a red flare had been sighted southward, in the direction of the Long Sand, was intercepted by Walton Coastguard at 1621 on Sunday,...
Contents
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 51 Number 509 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD MNIRNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, West Quay Road, Poole,...
Category: Contents
Two Fishing Boats
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY AS BOATS CROSS BAR Arbroath, Angus. At 3.35 on the afternoon of the 15th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that two local fishing boats were awaiting the tide to enter...
Fishing Boats (3)
North Sunderland, and Holy Island, Northumberland.—The fishing fleets of North Sunderland and Beadnell put out at about 5 A.M. on the 4th December for the fishing grounds, fifteen to twenty miles off shore. The weather was threatening, and...
Mary Grace, of Whitstable
Again, on the 5th Nov., the schooner Mary Grace, of Whitstable, went on the South Cross Sand, during a strong wind from the S.W. and in a heavy sea. As the tide made, the sea broke over her, and she filled with water. The large Life- boat...
Practice Makes Perfect
The crew arrive on the scene and find two injured workmen.
One is unconscious with a head wound and the other has a bad eye wound. Who should they treat first? They crew fit a neck brace on the man with a head wound. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tango
Great Yarmouth and Goriest on, Norfolk.
—At 12.39 in the afternoon, on the 28th of May, 1950, the Gorleston coast- guard telephoned that the Smith's Knoll Lightvessel had reported a yacht burning flares half a mile...