LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Poorsingel (1)
Caister, and Gt. Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk - At 9.40 a.m. on 6th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretaries of the Caister and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat stations that a U.S.A.F. Phantom aircraft had...
A Flat-Bottomed Punt
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 6.35 on the evening of the 30th of November, 1958, the honorary secretary was informed by the signal station of a police report. This was that two men, who had left Lihou Island at four o'clock in a...
The Dutch Cargo Vessel Helemar H
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 3.20 on the morning of the 13th of February, 1959, a message was received from the honorary secretary at Rosslare Harbour that a Dutch vessel was stran- ded on the rocks in Dunmore Bay and was sending...
A Dinghy
Lytham-St. Anne's, and Blackpool, Lancashire. At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 7th of March, 1959, the police at Blackpool informed the honorary secretaries at Lytham-St. Anne's and Blackpool that a dinghy fitted with an outboard...
A Dinghy (1)
Lytham-St. Anne's, and Blackpool, Lancashire. At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 7th of March, 1959, the police at Blackpool informed the honorary secretaries at Lytham-St. Anne's and Blackpool that a dinghy fitted with an outboard...
The S.S. Baxtergate
Barrow, Lancashire. At 11.15 on the morning of the 1st of July, 1959, a firm of shipping agents informed the coxs- wain that the father of a boy aboard the s.s. Baxtergate of London was danger- ously ill. As there was no other suitable boat...
Gleaner
Lerwick, Shetlands. At 9.45 on the evening of the 4th of April, 1960, the assistant honorary secretary told the honorary secretary that he had heard the motor fishing vessel Gleaner of Fraserburgh wirelessing for help as she was ashore at...
Two Canoes
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 8.37 on the evening of the 6th of August, 1954, the Gorleston coastguard rang up to say there were two canoes half a mile east of the pier, one of which had capsized, and that three boys were in the...
City of Ghent
Cadgwith, Cornwall.—At 8.27 on the evening of the 15th of November, 1955, the motor vessel City of Ghent, of Dublin, wirelessed that she had run ashore about three miles north-east- by-east of Lizard, but had later re- floated and was...
Hassel
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent.—At 4.13 on the morning of the 3rd of May, 1956, the Lade coastguard telephoned the life-boat station at Dungeness to say the motor vessel Hassel, of Bergen, Norway, had been in collision with an unknown vessel...