LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Hastings, Sussex.—About 12.40 in the afternoon of the 30th of July, 1949, the Fairlight coastguard telephoned that a sailing boat from Dungeness, with one man on board, appeared to be at anchor half a mile south by east of Fairlight Cove,...

Hastings, Sussex. — At 2.50 in the afternoon of the 22nd of September, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a local fisherman had reported to the police that a fishing vessel was making signals of distress off St. Leonards Pier.

On the evening of the 20th December a heavy W.N.W.

gale suddenly sprang up, overtaking several of the sprat fishing-boats whilst at sea. All the boats managed to reach the shore in safety with the exception of one, and when...

SEPTEMBER 14TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.

An officer of H.M.S. Hastings asked the honorary secretary of the life-boat station if the life-boat could be used to take out thirty seamen, who had been stranded ashore. The warship was...

How came the might of England ? Not by the tongue or pen; Deeply it grew as a flower in the hearts of its bravest men.

And it scattered the seeds of heroes along the storm-swept shore, That they might work for glory,...

Lives I saved.

Li 23 10 Adalina, fishing vessel, of Gravelines—stood by vessel.

Advance, ketch, of Bideford Amelia Ann, ketch, of Goo]e— rendered assistance.

A my, barge, of Bideford—...

SERVICES REQUESTED At 12.15 p.m. on 22nd March, 1965, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that he had a patient with suspected appendicitis, and requested the services of the life-boat. The mail steamer bound for Galway would be...

WEST HARTLEPOOL.—On the 2nd April, 1881,at about 11 A.M.,on observing the bri- gantine Danube, of Guernsey, which was about to enter the Hartlepool East Harbour, hoist a flag of distress, the West Hartle- pool No. 1 Life-boat Rochdale...