LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Adieu
BARGE FOUND AWASH AND TAKEN IN TOW Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.24 on the evening of the 16th October, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the barge Adieu, with a man and a woman on board, was aground north of the south-east...
Ameland
Life-Boat O.N. 70-001. At 12.10 a.m.
on yth February, 1966, the crew of the first seventy foot steel life-boat, anchored in Clovelly roads, intercepted a message on the radio from the German motor vessel Ameland stating...
June Rose
At 7.45 p.m. on i6th July, 1967, the honorary secretary was informed that a fishing boat was overdue, having left Walmer Beach at 10.30 a.m. for South Goodwin. In view of the weather conditions in the area the life-boat Charles Dibdin,...
Meta
OCTOBER 22ND. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.
At 12.50 P.M. the naval officer in charge at Barrow reported a boat in distress off Ravenglass harbour, and the motor lifeboat N.T. was launched at 1 P.M. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing,...
The S.S. Colytto
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 7.20 in the evening of the 21st of April, 1949, information was received that one of the crew of the s.s. Colytto, of Rotterdam, which was anchored one mile south-west of Lightning Knoll Buoy, urgently needed a doctor....
The S.S. Araton
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 18th of December, 1952, a local shipping agency asked if the life-boat would land an injured man from the S.S. Araton, of Stock- holm, which was lying two miles south-west of the Lightning...
Wild Duck
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 7.15 on the morning of the 2nd of Septem- ber, 1957, the coastguard passed on a message from the Norwegian steamer Manx that a yacht was in difficulties about one mile west of the West Sunk buoy. The life-boat...
Pilot
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 3.59 on the afternoon of the 5th of September, 1957, a message was received from the east pier watch that a yacht was sig- nalling for help off Quern buoy. At 4.8 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis left her moorings. The...
George Hastings
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 3.30 in the afternoon, on the 18th of April, 1950, the police reported that a trawler which had just put out had run ashore and was blowing her siren. At 3.50, the life-boat Lloyd's left her moorings in a...
Pinta
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.55 on the night of the 27th of May, 1950, a message came from the Warden Point Look-out that a sailing yacht was in distress two miles off Shoeburyness.
At 10.28 the life-boat Greater London,...