LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Thomas Sinclair
Angle, Pembrokeshire - At 10.35 p.m.
on 13th November, 1969, news was received that red flares had been sighted by the army authorities off St. Govan's head in the Bullslaughter bay area. The life-boat Richard Vernon...
A Small Open Boat
Walmer, Kent.—At 1 P.M. on the 29th July, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat station that the South Goodwin Lightvessel had reported a small open boat with a crew of two, drifting on to the Goodwin Sands.
A strong...
Dorothy (1)
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 9.50 on the night of the 30th of August, 1956, a message was received that the local fishing boat Dorothy was calling for help on her wireless. At 10.15 the no. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Heptcorth was laun- ched in a slight...
Cedrington Court
JANUARY. 7TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 10.15 A.M. a message was received from the Ramsgate coastguard that the North Goodwin Light-vessel had reported that an explosion and repeated blasts on a steamer’s siren had been heard about three miles...
18 Months of War.
In the first eighteen months of war life-boats have rescued 3526 lives.
They have rescued more lives in these eighteen months of war than in the last ten years of peace. They have rescued a life every four hours..
Category: Articles
This Remarkable Picture By Peter Foskett
This remarkable picture by Peter Foskett aboard the Lowestoft lifeboat gives some idea of the atrocious conditions during the service.
Red House Lugger can seen in the lee of the ferry Norkin while Aldeburgh's Mersey... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Spitfire's Dinghy
MARCH 2 3 RD. - NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN. At 3.45 P .M. information was received that an aeroplane had crashed, and the motor life-boat L. P. and St. Helen was launched at 4.5 P.M. A moderate easterly wind was blowing, with a choppy sea.
Beacon
Margate, Kent. — At 12.14 in the morning of the 29th of March, 1948,.
the coastguard reported red flares one and a half miles to the north-north- west, and at 12.30 the motor life-boat The Lord Southborough—Civil...
Northern Queen, of Lowestoft (1)
Aldeburgh, and Lowes toft, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 14th February, 1938, the Aldeburgh motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at 8.30 A.M. on information from the Aldeburgh coastguard that a fishing smack was in distress several...