LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (83)
OCTOBER 16TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found.
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H.M. Motor Anti-Submarine Boat No. 25. and another Motor Boat
JANUARY 1 8 T H . - WALMER, KENT. A quarter of an hour after midnight a message came from Dover that two motor boats were aground near the East Goodwins, 2 1/4 miles from the No. 2 Buoy. The motor lifeboat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service...
Coronation Queen
Runswick, Yorkshire. On the 29th August, 1961, the fishing boat Corona- tion Queen left Staithes for the fishing grounds at 4.30 in the morning. She was due back at one o'clock, but some two and a half hours later she had not returned....
Guus
HELP FOR DUTCH Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 9.25 p.m. on zoth June, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that the Dutch trawler Guus was making for Hartlepool with a sick man aboard and that a helicopter had been alerted. At 10.25 the...
A Typhoon Aeroplane
FEBRUARY 3RD. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.
The life-boat coxswain and others were at the life-boat station when, at 3.40 in the afternoon, they saw a Typhoon aeroplane, flying low, crash in the sea. A moderate southwest wind was...
A Vessel (20)
JUNE 7TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 10.28 P.M. a message was received at the life-boathouse from the Royal Engineers Signals at Princes Golf Club, that a vessel near there was showing flares, and at 10.45 P.M. another message came from the...
H.M.S. Saltburn
SEPTEMBER 15TH. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.
At 11.25 at night the honorary secretary of the life-boat station received a telephone message from the Barrow police that a vessel was arriving off Lightening Knoll at midnight and...
Zamaya, of Dartmouth
JULY 14TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At 9.43 in the morning the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that there was a boat about two miles off shore, and, a few minutes later, that she was hove to and showing a distress signal. The...
A Sailboard
Sailboard out in force 8 MICHAEL TIGHE, a crew member of Sunderland's 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat, was near the lifeboathouse onthe afternoon of Sunday November 4, 1984, when he was told that a board sailor was in trouble near...
Marie, of Griefswald
The Baroness Windsor life-boat at Penarth rescued the crew of 11 men of the brig Marie, of Grieffswald, which had stranded on Ranie Spit.