LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FEBRUARY 5TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. A fighter aeroplane had been reported to have crashed in the sea, but nothing was seen and the life-boat was recalled by a wireless message. - Rewards, £24 11s.

ENGINE FAILED AND NO SAIL Seaham, Durham.—At 11.56 in the morning of the 5th of July, 1947, the coastguard reported information from Hawkthorn Towers that a b"oat was.

adrift and in need of help, and the motor...

Barra Island: At 0812 on Saturday July 21, 1984, Barra Island's 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat, Hugh William Viscount Gough, was launched under the command of Coxswain/Mechanic John Macneil, following a MAYDAY from the survey ship Geotek...

Cullercoats, and Tynemoutb, North- umberland.—On the same morning, February 26th, 1947, the Greek steamer Zephyros, of Argostoli, a vessel of 4,000 tons, bound, in ballast, from Rouen to the Tyne, was driven ashore during a blizzard at...

The Institution has received gifts of chocolate from Messrs. Cadbury, Fry, and Rowntree, and biscuits from Messrs. Huntley and Palmers, McVitie and Price and Peek Frean as emergency rations for its life-boats. By permission of the Ministry...

Life-boat 44-001 at Sheerness, Kent - At 2.41 p.m. on 17th August, 1969, the coastguard told the staff coxswain that the catamaran Dandelion had capsized between Nos. 8 and 9 jetties of the Kent oil refinery on the Isle of Grain. The...

A welcome for the Duke from the crowds as he walked up to the exhibition site with the Lord Mayor of Plymouth, Councillor F.Johnson (right) and Captain Nigel Dixon, Director RNLI. . . .

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Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 12.30 in the afternoon of the 28th of March, 1952, the coastguard reported that a local fishing vessel was making heavy weather as she approached the har- bour, and at 12.50 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was...