LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M. Trawler Kingston Cairngorm
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BEMBRIDGE JANUARY 29TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT During the afternoon an easterly blizzard was raging at Bembridge in the Isle of Wight.
The wind had been blowing hard for several days and a very...
A German Three Masted Schooner
At 10.30 P.M., on the 26th May, distress signals were | reported from the Princess Light-vessel, and the No. 1 Life-boat Eliza Harriet l was launched and proceeded to her.
There they learnt that a vessel...
Spaarnestroom and S.S. Waldemar Sieg
Dover, and Walmer, Kent.—At 10.48 on the night of the 20th of March, 1953, the Sandgate coastguard rang up the Dover life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Spaarnestroom, of Amsterdam, which had been in colli- sion with the S.S....
Blackpool Illuminated
Jon Jones visits Blackpool's new all-singing, all-dancing lifeboat station and gets thoroughly rained on in the process..
Blackpool, with its Pleasure Beach, Illuminations and Golden Mile of amusements, night clubs,...
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A Dinghy (5)
GIRL RESCUED BY SPEED BOAT North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 10th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy had been seen to capsize off Newton Link house. A...
H.M. Trawler Sheldon
MARCH 7TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At 4.45 A.M.. the coastguard reported signals from a vessel to the N.E. by E., and the motor life-boat K.B.M. was launched at 6.30 A.M.
A light southerly wind was blowing...
Supertaff
Three rescued after yacht is rolled in storm force windsA Courtmacsherry Harbour trocious weather conditions greeted Courtmacsherry Harbour's Trent class lifeboat when she put to sea on Saturday 24 October, headed for a yacht which had...
George and Martha, and Mizpah
Newbiggin, and Blytb, Northumberland, —At about 10.50 A.M. on the 24th January, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had been reported in difficulties off Old Hartley Bay and a little later that she was off Seaton Sluice Point...
A Speed Boat (3)
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 4.3 p.m. on 20th June, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a speedboat had capsized off Beadnell. At 4.9 the inshore rescue boat launched in a gentle, gusting to...
French Medals for Swanage
On the 3ist, December, 1943, the Swanage life-boat rescued three lives from the French nayal launch "Chasseur 5", which had capsized in a heavy sea when escorting a submarine. The men were clinging to her keel. On July...
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