LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mary and Jane
— In the evening of the 25th April, whilst the Coxswain and two motor - men were on board the motor Life - boat, James Stevens No. 14, running the engines, they saw a barge—the Mary Jane, of Rochester—apparently in difficulties, with the...
Princess
On the evening of the 8th July, Coxswain Grunnill received a telephone message from the Coastguard stating that a vessel was flying a signal of distress. He launched the Life-boat Samuel Lewis, and on arrival found the vessel was the ketch...
Birda
PADSTOW, CORNWALL.—Shortly after noon on Sunday, the 1st March, it was reported that the steam trawler Birda, of Milford, was on the "Doombar" with the sea washing right over her. Rockets were at once fired, and while the crew were...
Celine
On the 18th March theLife-boat Lcetitia saved the crew of the schooner Celine, which -was wrecked on the Holm Sand in a strong N.B. gale.
The master having refused to abandon his vessel, the Life-boat had to return to the...
Duchess of Leith (1)
CURIOUS INCIDENT OFF SHERINGHAM Sheringham and Cromer, Norfolk. At about five o'clock on the afternoon of Thursday the 19th September, 1963, the Sheringham coxswain launched his crab boat to investigate a cabin cruiser, Duchess of Leith,...
Yvonne
Plymouth.
ON the 3rd October the Plymouth Lifeboat was launched shortly before 10 P.M., in a strong southerly gale, with heavy rain and a very heavy sea, to the help of a vessel which had been driven ashore on the eastern...
Norwal and Svint
JULY 10TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
At 2.40 in the morning the Stepper Point coastguard reported that an SOS was being flashed six miles N.N.E. of Stepper Point.
As it was known that convoys were passing and...
Roma (1)
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—On the afternoon of the llth April the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat three miles S.W. by W. of Shoreham Harbour was burning flares. A strong N.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea and squalls of...
Adele
At 4.20 A.M. on the 22nd August, a telephone message was received from the Gunfleet Lighthouse stating that a vessel was ashore on the sand. Rockets were fired to assemble the crew, and within thirteen minutes the Life-boat James Stevens No....
Wave Crest
Coxswain John Swan of the Lowestoft Life-boat Kentwell was called out by the beach- men at 4.30 P.M. on the 15th February and informed that a vessel was aground at the entrance to the harbour. The Life-boat was launched without loss of time,...