LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boatman Goes Overboard
SHORTLY before noon on the 17th of April, a fishing boat, with two men on board, half a mile off Selsey Bill, was seen from the shore to capsize. A moderate wind was blowing from the south-west, and there was a steep, choppy sea. Within ten...
Category: Services
A Rubber Dinghy
St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—At 1.38 in the afternoon, on the 9th of April, 1950, a message was received that a youth was being blown seawards in a rubber dinghy three-quarters of a mile off Coldingham Sands. Accordingly, at 1.45 the life-boat J....
Canoes
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 7.25 on the evening of the 30th of July, 1950, the coastguard reported a message from the East Goodwin Lightvessel. Two exhausted canoeists were aboard, and they wanted the life-boat to land...
King Athelstan
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 7.54 on the morning of the 10th of March, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that the local steam trawler King Athelstan, with a crew of ten, had broken adrift from a tug and gone on the Newcombe...
A Steamer (2)
24th November. A steamer stranded on the Goodwin Sands, "but came off with the rising tide.—Rewards, £30 16s, 6d..
Pleasure-Boat on Fire. A Service at Skegness
A Service at Skegness.
SHORTLY before eleven on the morning of 19th August, 1935, the motor plea- sure cruiser, Elizabeth Allen, of Skegness, set out for a trip with over a hundred passengers on board. The weather was...
Category: Services
Smiling Morn
Southwold, Suffolk.—On the afternoon of the 5th June the Aldeburgh coastguard reported that a small motor fishing boat belonging to Southwold was passing northwards and making heavy weather. She was the Smiling Morn, with the life-boat's...
Mayfly
Torbay, Devon.—On the evening of the 12th July the Berry Head coastguard reported that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties between Berry Head and the Orestone. A strong, squally S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with heavy rain. The motor...
A Panamanian Steamer
On the evening of the 21st of January, 1955, the St. Mary's, Scilly Islands, life-boat was called out to go to the help of a Panamanian steamer.
After a dangerous passage among rocks and in dense fog the life-boat...
Jean and Barbara
Filey, Yorkshire. — During the late afternoon of the 30th of January, 1948, anxiety was felt for the safety of the local fishing coble Jean and Barbara, which was overdue, with a crew of three, and at 5.23 the motor life-boat The Cuttle was...