LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Gift of Bass
Two anglers fishing for four days in the Solent, caught 550 bass, weighing about 10 cwts. They sold one day's catch for the benefit of the Life-boat Service..
Category: Donations
Viking Deeps
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—About half past four on the morning of the 15th of February, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a ship was showing flares off Bayble, seven miles from Stornoway. At 5.15 the life-boat William and Harriet was...
Rescued and Rescuer
The baby seal was stranded on the beach at Frinton and was adopted by Coxswain W. J. Oxley, of the Walton and Frinton life-boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Canoe
Eastbourne, Sussex.—About 11.20 in the morning of the llth of September, '1949, the police reported that a canoe had capsized oil Falling Sands. The occupants, a man and his two small children, had been trying to round Beachy Head. Ten...
Silver Wings
TOW FOR FISHING VESSEL AFTER ENGINE BREAKDOWN Newhaven, Sussex. At 1.25 early on the morning of the 2nd June, 1963, the Newhaven coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen between three and a half and four...
A Naval Cutter
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 6.53 on the evening of the 4th of July, 1954, the St. Anthony coastguard telephoned that a naval cutter appeared to be in difficulties six miles south-east of St.
Anthony light-house. At 7.17 the life...
Sthoreen
Humber, Yorkshire. At 12.38 on the afternoon of the 14th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a yacht was drifting towards the entrance of the River Hum- ber but was not showing distress...
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th of February, 1961, the honorary secretary received a telephone message from the Island Commission of St. John Ambu- lance that the ambulance launch was under...
Panta-Genesta
Newhaven, Sussex. At 8.50 on the evening of the 20th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the mine sweeper H.M.S.
Warsash had asked for the life-boat to meet her at ten o'clock to take...
Jean & Barbara
COBLE ESCORTED ASHORE AFTER DRIFTING Filey, Yorkshire. At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 7th March, 1962, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that because of the deteriorating weather conditions he thought it advisable to launch the...