LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Hurricane Aeroplane (1)
SEPTEMBER 8TH. - BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 9.43 in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a British Hurricane aeroplane had crashed into the sea two miles east of Embleton, some seven miles N.N.E. of the...
Old Goody
RAMSGATE.—On the 8th December, the Life-boat Bradford went out at 6.30 A.M. in tow of the harbour steam-tug Vulcan, and rescued the crew consisting of seven men of the brigantine, Old Goody, of Faversham, bound from Hartlepool for Ramsgate...
Coxswain W. Watts Williams
Coxswain William Watts Williams, of St. David's, who died on the 7th Jan- uary, 1963, had served as coxswain of the St. David's life-boat for 19 years.
During this period the St. David's life- boat was launched...
Category: Obituaries
Sea Fever
Sjng I e h anded_saNor towed to safety Along and arduous service in gale force winds, heavy seas and wintery conditions in April 1998 has earned Paul Martin, the Coxswain of Skegness lifeboat the RNLI's Thanks on...
Carillion of Wight
Thick fog THE WATCHMAN at St Aldhelm's Head Coastguard heard sounds of a vessel striking the rocks below his lookout in thick fog at 2145 on Thursday July 13.
Without delay he alerted the Coastguard Cliff Rescue Company...
Life-Boat Regulations. January, 1865
THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, an j to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...
Category: Articles
Hollyhow and Harp
GROOMSPORT, Co. DOWN.—On the 16th June, while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea, a message. by telephone was received from Bangor stating that assistance was needed by distressed vessels. The Lifeboat...
A Vampire Jet Aircraft (1)
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent; and Hastings, Sussex.—About 9.25 on the night of the 18th of December, 1952, the Dungeness life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson had just returned from a service launch to a steamer aground a mile east of the...
Texaco Caribbean, of Panama, Caracas
CHANNEL SEARCH It was learnt at 4.15 a.m. on 11th January, 1971, that an explosion had taken place at sea about one and a half miles west of the Varne Bank and that a tug was making for the spot. It was later established that the tanker...
Gazelle (1)
Plymouth, Devon ; and Fowey, Corn- wall. At 4.42 on the afternoon of the 18th of March, 1960, the signal station at Longroom informed the honorary secretary of the Plymouth life-boatstation of a report received from the pilot cutter. This...