LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gertie
DECEMBER 8TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 5.45 A.M. a message was received from the military lookout post at Greenore Point that rockets and flares had been seen, and at 6.35 A.M. the motor lift-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was...
Two Vessels (2)
AUGUST 14TH. - APPLEDORE, AND CLOVELLY, DEVON, AND PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
About 7.10 in the evening information from the naval authorities was received at both Clovelly and Padstow that two vessels were sinking, as a result of...
Views Across a Century
Views across a century With an eye and ear for history, (I) Paul Reed, Fred Hills and Richard Ovenden, crew members of Littlestoneon- Sea's Atlantic 21 lifeboat posed for a photograph which has a not altogether coincidental resemblance... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Category: Articles
Lady Beatrice D
Margate, Kent.—At 7.16 on the even- ing of the 7th of July, 1957, the coast- guard reported that a small motor yacht was drifting out to sea near the feast Margate buoy. At 7.25 the life- boat North Foreland (Civil Service...
West Wind
Exmouth, Devon.—At 9.30 on the night of the 28th of September, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that three red flares had been seen eight to ten miles south of Lyme Regis, and that an R.A.F. rescue launch was putting out to search. At 9.48...
Lady Leila and Dawk Eeang
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 6.45 in the evening, on the 4th of June, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the North Goodwin Lightvessel had reported a motor cruiser apparently aground near Goodwin Knoll buoy. At 6.55 the life-boat Mary Scott, on...
Evi Livanos
Barrow, Lancashre. Shipping agents at Heysham telephoned the life-boat motor mechanic at 9 a.m. on i5th June, 1965, to say that the wife of a member of the crew of the Liberian tanker Em Livanos was an expectant mother and needed medical...
A Dinghy
DUTCH COASTER'S SEARCH ' Walmer, Kent. At 12.52 a.m. on 2nd August, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch coaster Vivat had reported seeing a small boat hi which several people were shouting for help...
Ocean Packet No. 3
NEWCASTLE, DUNDRUM BAY.—On the 17th April, at 9 A.M., the brigantine Ocean Packet No. 3, of Harlingen, was obliged by strong wind and heavy sea following on an easterly storm, to run .from her anchorage off St. John's Point and drive...