LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rye Remembered
Popular Warwick folk band, Meet on the Ledge, have included a track on their new CD which tells the story of the 1928 Rye Harbour lifeboat tragedy.. - View image in PDF
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The Turbo-Electric Tanker Ampac-California
Barrow, Lancashire.—-At half past six on the morning of the 4th of October, 1950, the Walney Island coastguard reported a ship aground in Hilpsford Point, Walney. No distress signals had been made, but it was thought advisable to launch the...
Deeside
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—At two o'clock on the morning of the 1st of February, 1956, a message was re- ceived that the steam trawler Deeside, of Milford Haven, was sending out SOS messages on her wireless ten miles...
Richard Davies, Coxswain of Cromer Lifeboat
I Richard Da vies, coxswain of Cromer lifeboat, first joined the crew in 1962 and then served as second coxswain from 1975 until his appointment as coxswain in 1976. Richard was also a crew member of the station's inshore lifeboat from... - View image in PDF
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A Bag of Money Containing £1250 Was Handed to Coxswain Michael Scales of St.Peter Port After the Younger Members of Guernsey Yacht
A bag of money containing £1,250 was handed to Coxswain Michael Scales of St Peter Port after the younger members of Guernsey Yacht Club had competed in a bath tub race. Designs for racing bath tubs become more sophisticated every year... - View image in PDF
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Hummona
Margate, Kent-At 2.21 a.m. on 7th June, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted in the Edinburgh Channel six to seven miles off Foreness point. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was...
The S.S. Cairnglen
OCTOBER 22ND. - TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 6.57 A . M . a message was received from the port war signal station that a vessel was ashore off the Tyne, north of Souter Point. A strong easterly wind was blowing, and there was a moderate...
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Barrow, Lancashire, and Maryport, Cumberland.—During the morning of the 16th January, 1938, a man reported to the Whitehaven police that he had seen rockets off the coast between Seascale and Sellafield, about twentyeight miles by sea from...
Tarka
Coverack, Cornwall.—At 5.28 on the afternoon of the 12th of February, 1955, the coxswain reported that he had seen a boat drifting off the Manacles and later stated that a steamer was with her.
At 5.50 the life-boat William...
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Fowey, Cornwall.—22nd September.
Distress signals had been reported at Dodman Point, but nothing could be found.—Rewards, £13 2s. 6d..