LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ruby
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. —• At 8.10 in the evening on the 19th of May, 1949, the coastguard reported that men had been seen waving from a small boat about five miles north by east of Peter- head, and the life-boat Julia Park Barry, of...
None
Torbay, Devon.—At 1.30 on the after- noon of the 1st of July, 1953, the Brixham coastguard rang up to say that a boy had fallen over a cliff south of Berry Head coastguard look-out post. He had been badly hurt and, at 1.45 the life-boat...
Mako
Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 8.25 p.m. on i6th April, 1967, it was noticed that a vessel was flashing a distress signal west of the boom on the Kent side. The life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched at 8.59 in a gentle...
Fury
SIX TAKEN ABOARD At 6.35 p.m. on ist June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen off Foreness.
The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. n) was launched at 6.50 in a heavy...
Boy John
Wells, Norfolk. At 9.30 on the even- ing of the 14th July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretarythat a yacht was in distress off Blakeney.
There was a moderate west-south- westerly wind and a smooth sea...
A Motor Boat
Stronsay, and Stromness, Orkneys.— At 10.24 on the night of the 26th of May, 1954, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned the Stronsay life-boat sta- tion that a man had left St. Catherine's Bay in a motor boat for Kirkwall at five...
Brothers Pride, of St. John's
NEW BRIGHTON.—About sunset on the 17th January the barque Brothers Pride, of St. John's, bound from that port for Liverpool, while in tow of a steam-tug, got ashore on Taylor's Bank at the entrance of the River Mersey. The weather...
Bonnie Lass
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 11.27 on the morning of the 18th of June, 1953, the Walton-on-the-Naze coast- guard rang up to say that the North Foreland radio station had passed on a message from the motor vessel Bonnie Lass, of Shoreham....
Zeearend, Valeria and Ellora
AUGUST 12TH. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.
At 4.5 in the morning a message was received from the king’s harbour master that a yacht was drifting dangerously near the rocks on the southern shore. A south-westerly gale was blowing and...
Folly Funds
For the last 12 years visitors to The Folly Inn on the banks of the River Medina on the Isle of Wight have been accosted by charming lady rattling her lifeboat collecting box! Twice a day, during flag week, Anne Burdett makes the ten minute... - View image in PDF
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