LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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OCTOBER 19TH. - WALMER, KENT. Signals for help had been reported, but no vessel in need of help could be found. - Rewards, £16 13s..
A Steamer (13)
DECEMBER 13TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
A steamer showing a red light had been reported, but no vessel in need of help could be found. - Rewards, £43 15s. 6d..
A Beaufighter Aeroplane
JULY 10TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
A Beaufighter aeroplane had nosedived into the sea, but no survivors were found. - Rewards, £16 13s. 6d..
Francis Drake
Fowey, Cornwall - At 12.25 p.m. on 11th October, 1969, it was learnt that a boat was in difficulties at Lantivet bay. At 12.40 the life-boat Deneys Reitz slipped her moorings in a fresh east south easterly wind with a choppy sea. It was low...
Westward
HAD BROKEN DOWN Troon, Ayrshire. At 7.27 p.m. on 5th May, 1964, the Kildonan coastguard told the life-boat coxswain of a Lamlash police report that a small boat was in difficulties 200 yards north of Holy Isle buoy. The life-boat Glencoe,...
RESCUE
Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year. Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the following pages for more reports:
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Category: Articles
Antje
NEW ROMNEY, KENT.- -A telephone message was received from the coastguard about midnight on the 23rd- 24th March stating that a vessel was making signals of distress off' Littlestone Point. The night was cold and wet, accompanied by a...
Book Corner
0 Shipwreck by Vcra Cumberlege (Andre Deutsch, 95p) is a very well illustrated children's book. Young Jim knew he would never forget the day his father and the rest of the life-boat crew rowed out to a wreck for the last time before the...
Category: Articles
Peter Stepniewski Was Dared to Take a Swim
Peter Stepniewski was dared to take a swim in the sea on New Year's Day; apart from goosepimples, the net result was a tankard full of sponsorship money—£14.60 in all— which he is seen handing to Arthur Dick, station honorary... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Faithful
North Sunderland, and Holy Island, Northumberland. At midday on the 17th November, 1962. the North Sunderland coxswain, in the absence of the honorary secretary, told the coastguard that he felt anxious about the fishing vessel Faithful,...