LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (116)
SEPTEMBER 5TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
At 3.38 P.M. a Spitfire aeroplane was seen chasing a German aeroplane out to sea. The German came down several miles S. by W.
of the life-boat station. A S.W. breeze was...
None (55)
Nov. 21ST. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A message was received in the evening that an explosion and distress signals had been heard east of Withernsea, and the life-boat was launched at 7.35 P.M., just as an attack by a German...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To DAVID ANDERSON, on his retirement, after serving 8J years as Bowman and 23 years as Coxswain at Montrose, a Certificate of Service and a Pension.
To THOMAS LEADBETTER, on his retirement, after serving 14 years as Bowman...
Category: Awards
Hayling Island -- South Division
Hayling Island, on the coast of East Hampshire and connected to the mainland by a road bridge, has Portsmouth to its west, Chichester Harbour to the east and the English Channel on it's southern shores.
Hayling's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dispatch
At dusk on the evening of the 2nd October the schooner Dispatch, of this port, was making for the harbour, when the wind suddenly fell, and she drove over the rocks into the broken water. The master immediately showed a signal of distress,...
Lizzie R Wilce & Mary Barrow
At about 9.15 P.M. on the 7th January, during a heavy N.W. gale, a vessel was seen running for the harbour, but on nearing the entrance she missed stays and was driven on to Porthminster Beach, first striking heavily on Pednolver...
Laura and Prospector
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—Early in the afternoon of the 9th January, 1939, a man reported that his son and two other men who had gone out in the motor fishing boat Laura to shoot cod lines had not returned when expected.
Strong...
The Panamanian Motor Vessel Pacific Trader
Walmer, Kent - At 3.45 p.m. on 2yth December, 1966, a large steamer was thought to be aground near the B.I.
buoy on the Brake Sands. Visibility was poor and the vessel was just visible. The life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil...
A Canoe (3)
Redcar, Yorkshire. At 10.30 on the morning of the 21st of June, 1960, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that the beach patrol at Saltburn had seen two boys leave Salt- burn at 9.30 that morning in a small canoe. He had lost sight...
Dorshie
— On the afternoon of the 6th November the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel, one and a half miles S.E. of St. Mary's Island, was showing signals of distress. A moderate breeze was blowing, with a heavy ground swell, and a...