LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cromer Bowman's Gallantry. Attempt to Rescue a Drowning Man
Attempt to Rescue a Drowning Man.
ON the morning of 17th February last a number of fishing boats from Shering- ham, on the coast of Norfolk, went out after whelks. Before they returned a heavy sea had got up, and the...
Category: Services
Daring
BALLYCOTTON, CORK,—The fishing yawl Daring, of Ballycotton, was overtaken by a sadden gale from the W.N.W. while lifting her nets in the bay at about 11.30 A,M. on the 17th October, The crew were unable to pull against the wind and broke...
Book Reviews
• Howard Biggs, in his book The Sound of Maroons (Terence Dalton, Suffolk, £5.80) has researched diligently to produce such a fine history of the Kent and Sussex lifeboat stations from 1802 to 1977.
Much more than a...
Category: Articles
Richard Vaughan (Right) Presents a Cheque for £1,500 to Rear Admiral Graham (Left) and the Stockbridge
Richard Vaughan (right) presents a cheque for £1,500 to Rear Admiral Graham (left) and the Stockbridge branch after the clay pigeon shoot.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Penlee
PENLEE, Friday February 14, 1986: at 0630 Penlee's 52 ft Arun class lifeboat, Mabel Alice, with Coxswain Ken Thomas at the helm, set out in a force 10 east by southerly storm and poor visibility. The Guernsey registered coaster, Roy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Reward
Shortly after 6 A.M.
on the 4th April, it was reported that a vessel was on the rocks east of Fair- light Coastguard Station, and that she was showing flares for assistance. The crew of the Life-boat Charles Arkcoll was...
A Motor Dinghy From Wishbone
On the afternoon of the 20th July the motor life-boat Hearts of Oak, when off Sconce Point on her return to Yarmouth from exercise off Milford, saw a motor dinghy from the yacht Wishbone drift- ing rapidly towards Shingle...
Vagrant Gypsy
Dismasted yacht AT 1330 on Sunday August 11, 1985, Portland coastguard received a 999 call from a member of the public reporting he had seen a yacht firing a white flare about a mile and a half south of Lulworth Cove. The coastguard at...
Briton
The Charles Dibdin Life-boat was launched at 10 P.M. on the llth November, during a whole northerly gale, to a vessel which was burning flares in the Downs off Deal. On reaching the vessel she proved to be the barge Briton, of London, with...
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