LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
King Ford
At 10 P.M. on the 3rd March the Coastguard received a telephone message from the Kentish Knock Light-vessel stating that a vessel was making distress signals on the Kentish Knock Sands. Within a quarter of an hour the No. 1 Life-boat Eliza...
Janny
Margate, Kent. At 12.57 on the afternoon of the 31st of December, 1958, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a message received through the North Foreland radio station that the General Post Office cable ship Ariel had received...
Alarm, of Belfast
On the 23rd March, the ship Alarm, of Belfast, was driven into Ballycotton Bay, during a strong gale of wind, and came to anchor under shelter of the island. As the gale increased, however, she dragged her anchors and drifted towards the...
Vandro
AUXILIARY KETCH TOWED TO HARBOUR Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 10.20 on the evening of the 27th May, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the master of the Galloper lightvessel had reported that a large auxiliary ketch...
A Rowing Boat (1)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 4.27 on the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small rowing boat was anchored off Holland-on-Sea near the buoy marking the sewer. Her occupant was waving a...
Coxswain Thomas Langlands, of Whitby
The Life-boat Service has lost one of its most distinguished Coxswains by the death on 20th March last, after a painful illness, of Thomas Smith Langlands, of Whitby. He had a great career as a Life-boatman, a career extending over nearly...
Category: Obituaries
Hassett
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 1.10 early on the morning of the 18th of Septem- ber, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that the trawler Hassett, of Grimsby, which had a crew of twenty, had gone ashore north-east of Noss Head. At 1.25 the life-boat...
Rose of England and Yewdale
FEBRUARY 3 RD. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 8.35 A.M. a fisherman reported that two ships were being attacked by enemy aircraft. This was confirmed by the coastguard. A light breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 8.45 A.M. the motor...
DIVE BOAT SINKS
KYLE OF LOCHALSH | 15 NOVEMBER
When a dive boat with three divers ran aground, the Kyle of Lochalsh crew rushed to the rescue. Finding the divers safe on the rocks, the crew decided to wait for the tide to flood before towing the...
Category: Services
Wellington of Aberystwith
On the 14th April, during 'a very severe gale of wind, a brig was seen to part from her anchors in the Mumbles Roads, and to bum signals of distress. The Wolverhampton life-boat was promptly launched, and remained by the vessel until,...