LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kingston Prison In Portsmouth
People passing by Kingston Prison in Portsmouth one day in April were amazed to see the prison doors swing open and hordes of oddly dressed 'convicts' flooding out. They were all competitors in the great charity jailbreak, organised... - View image in PDF
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Dolphin
Aberdeen.—At 11.14 on the morn- ing of the 4th of June, 1955, the coast- guard rang up to say that the lugger Maria, of Scheveningen, had wirelessed that she had in tow another Dutch lugger, the Dolphin, whose engine room was full of water....
Fishing Boats (3)
Arbroath, Angus.—The local fishing fleet put out during the early morning of the 23rd November, 1938, in fine weather. Later on a S.E. wind sprang up and rapidly increased to gale force. The sea grew very rough, with heavy rain, sleet and...
A Sailing Boat (2)
Newhaven, and Selsey, Sussex. At 12.5 on the afternoon of the 17th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing boat had capsized a quarter of a mile off Cuckmere and that her crew of two could be...
Granton Osprey
Nine from rocks AS REPORTED on page 15, the silver medal of the RNLI was awarded to Coxswain George Leith, of the Lerwick, Shetland, lifeboat for the part he played in the rescue of nine men from the trawler Granton Osprey in hurricane force...
Yvette
FRENCH FISHERMEN SHELTERED St. Mary's, Scffly Islands.—At about 8.0 in the evening of the 8th of April, 1947, the coastguard reported that a French fishing vessel, with a crew of twenty, was ashore on Queens Ledge Rocks. A moderate...
A Yacht
ESCORT FOR YACHT AFTER SHE REFLOATS Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 8.40 on the evening of the 4th August, 1962, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of a message received from the police that a local man had taken a woman and two...
Ecureuil
Oo the 6th December, at about 2.30 VM,,the lugger Ecureuil, of Gravelines, in ballast, which had lost her mainmast, was driven ashore on the North Saads during a storm from the E.N.E, sad a very high sea. The No. 1 Life-boat, Charles Mather,...
Fishing Boats
The Life- boat Dunleary was launched at 6.5 P.M.
on the 30th January in response to a report, brought in by the mail-boat, that some of the fishing-boats belonging to Kingstown were in danger owing to the W.S.W. breeze...
Sir John Lister
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 7.38 P.M. on the 6th April the Donna Nook coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore north of Donna Nook beacon.
A gentle breeze was blowing, with a slight swell, but there was a very dense fog. The...