LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two B.E.M's.
Coxswain William Swankie, of Arbroath, who won the bronze medal of the Institution in February, 1940, for going to the help of a barge which wa» being bombed by a German aeroplane, and Coxswain Patrick Murphy, of Newcastle, Co. Down,...
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Fishing Boats (2)
Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—On the morning of the 18th February the local fishing fleet put to sea, but the weather grew bad and all but four boats returned.
At 10 A.M. the motor life-boat Margaret Dawson was launched, to...
Double trouble
24 September: Eastbourne Two jet skiers were attempting a passage from Newhaven to the Sovereign Light Tower when one of their craft suffered engine failure. They tried to use the craft that was still working to...
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Arundel Castle
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—Signals having been fired by the Gorton Light-vessel on the llth February, the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was launched at about 6.30 P.M., during a moderate gale and a rough sea. As the wind was blowing directly into the...
Warwick
Newhaven, Sussex. At 3.25 on the morning of the 7th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the s.s. Pompey Light of Portsmouth that she was standing by the cabin cruiser Warwick,...
Corsea
At 5.35 p.m. on 4th September, 1966, a large vessel was reported aground on the Gunfleet Sands, but there was no immediate danger. The honorary secretary and the coxswain went to the coastguard lookout and saw the collier Corsea hard aground...
Up Spirits
Weather deteriorated ON THE EVENING of Wednesday, September 8, 1976, the yacht Up Spirits anchored in New Quay Bay. Her owner and one member of the crew remained on board while the other slept ashore.
During the night the...
A Fishing Boat
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 10.30 on the night of the 20th of August, 1958, the police reported that two fishermen were overdue and that flames had been seen from Cobo Bay in a north-westerly direction. At 10.45 the life-boat Euphrosyne...
A Small Boat (4)
JUNE 2ND. - RAMSGATE, KENT. Early in the morning the owner of the Guildford Hotel, Sandwich, reported to the police that his son and another boy had put out in a small boat the previous night. They had not returned, and the boat could be...
A Vessel
Another vessel went ashore on the same sands during a gale from the S.W. on the 1st February. The Lcetitia went off to her, but on arriving alongside, it was discovered that she had been abandoned by her crew.
The men,...