LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An R. A. F. Twin -Engine Fighter Monoplane
MARCH 13TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
At 10.24 A.M. an R.A.F. twin - engine fighter monoplane landed on the sands about 250 yards west of Bispham Slade, and was unable to take off again. At 11.40 A.M. a message was received...
Lifeboat Services
VERY LITTLE SEAROOM AND FUEL OIL ON THE DECKS Two services in eight days to factory ships - 40 men saved The joint second coxswain of the Lerwick lifeboat, William Clark, has achieved the rare distinction of being awarded the RNLI's...
Category: Services
Fortune Hunter
Fishing boat overdue THE FISHING VESSEL, Fortune Hunter, expected to arrive at Ventry, Co Kerry at 1600 on the afternoon of Saturday January 12, 1985, had still not appeared by 1930. The police telephoned the honorary secretary of Valentia...
Boy Nicholas
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—In response to signals, the Life-boat Mark Lane was launched at 2.40 a.m. on the 16th September, and found the fishing-smack Boy Nicholas, of Lowestoft, aground on the East Cross Sand, where she had stranded in a thick...
Gipsy Queen
On the morning of the 13th February, the local motor fishing boat Gipsy Queen, with two men on board, went out sprat-fishing off Fairlight Glen. Her engine broke down; she began to drift; and the men signalled for help. A moderate...
Iona
TEIGNMOITTH.— The Arnold Life-boat put off at 11 P.M. on the 18th December to the assistance of the fishing-smack lona, which had not returned to Harbour, the weather being thick, the wind freshening, and the sea becoming very rough with a...
Fishing Cobles
Filey, Yorkshire. At 11.30 on the morning of the 4th April, 1961, in the absence of the honorary secretary, the motor mechanic informed the branch chairman that nine cobles were still at sea and, in view of weather conditions, the life-boat...
Cymbeline
On the following morning a schooner was seen stranded close to the spot where the Energy had sunk. The Life-boat Beauchamp was launched at 5 o'clock and on reaching the vessel—which proved to be the schooner Cymbeline, of London— the...
Flamingo
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.55 on the evening of the 10th of August, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a motor launch appeared to have broken down one mile south-east of the pier. One of her crew of three was waving an oar, and at 6.17...
Dagon
Margate, Kent. At 12.10 on the afternoon of the 27th of June, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that a small sailing dinghy was in difficulties about three and a half miles north- north-west of Margate pier. At 12.16 the life-boat North...