LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 9.12 in the morning, on the 19th of April, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was flying a distress signal. Accordingly at 9.15 the life- boat Louise Stephens was...
Forban, of London
AUGUST 28TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 2.15 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned information, received from the S.S. Thelma, through Land’s End Radio, that a yacht was four miles north of Grassholm, with her...
Hazelwood II
INJURED MAN ON ISLAND Poole, Dorset. At 3.16 a.m. on 29th January, 1965 the police informed the honorary secretary that the Warden of Brownsea Island had informed them that a man with head injuries and practically unconscious had landed on...
February (1)
FEBRUARY MEETING PORT WEMYSS, ISLAY. The S.S. Agate, laden with coal and bound from Poole to Belfast, lost touch with her convoy during thick weather and ran ashore at Carn Point on the west coast of Islay at 4.30 in the morning of the 30th...
Category: Services
Jannenna
Walmer, Kent - At 9.58 p.m. on 28th September, 1969, the honorary secretary intercepted radio messages between the coastguard and the South Goodwin lightship which reported red flares from a cabin cruiser abeam the South Foreland light, two...
Our Lady
Hastings, Sussex. At 9.45 on the evening of the 25th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been observed five miles south-east-by-south of Fairlight. The life-boat M.T.C. was launched at 10.9 in a...
A Boat
Humber, Yorkshire. At 9.57 on the morning of the 6th of June, 1958, the Spurn Point coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a man had made fast in a small boat to a float of the Admiralty boom half a mile north of the life-boat...
Wanderlust
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At six o'clock on the morning of the 14th of September, 1959, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen six miles east-north- east of Woody Bay. At 6.14 the life- boat...
Del Johnson
Del Johnson Penlee deputy launching authority and station honorary treasurer, on 28 October.
Category: Obituaries
An Aeroplane (111)
AU G U S T 3 1 S T . - F L A M B O R O U G H , YORKSHIRE. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but nothing was found.
Later it was learned that the crew of four had already been picked up by another vessel. - Rewards,...