LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Veryan
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—In the afternoon of the 23rd September, 1938. the coastguard reported that the St. Nicholas Light-vessel was firing and flying signals calling for the lifeboat's help. A light S.S...
Lord Harewood
At 11 P.M.
on the 1st April the life-boat watchman reported that a vessel had stranded on the Inner Binks. A N.W. to W. wind was blowing, with a rough ground sea.
The motor life-boat City of Bradford II...
A Small Boat (1)
On the evening of the 15th August news was received that a small boat with a man and a woman on board had been seen in difficulties, drifting with the tide through Calf Sound. The honorary secretary engaged a motor boat and went in search...
A Dinghy
LONG SEARCH IN A FOG Margate, Kent.—At 9.32 on the night of the 12th of October, 1947, the coast- guard reported that a boy who had gone fishing in a dinghy off the Ness at 8 o'clock that morning, had not been seen since. The motor...
A Drifter Attached to H.M.S. King George V
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 11.30 on the night of the 29th of March, 1949, the coastguard reported that a drifter, attached to H.M.S. King George V, had gone ashore on Mixen Reef about a hundred yards from the pier while carrying about seventy-five...
Fishing Boats
Sheringham, Norfolk. — About 9 o'clock in the morning of the 22nd of April, 1949, local fishing boats were overtaken by bad weather. Some reached the shore with difficulty.
Three were still at sea, and the life- boat...
Richard Dimbleby
Richard Dimbleby who died on the 22nd December, 1965 at the age of 52 was an active supporter and friend of the life-boat service. To a man, such as he was, of great personal courage and deep sincerity and with a passionate interest in...
Category: Obituaries
All Bottled Up
When is an emergency not an emer- gency ? One answer might come from the crew of the inshore rescue boat at St. Ives: when it is a drifting bottle.
At 8.25 p.m. on 29th May Captain T. Stevens, honorary secretary at...
Category: Articles
Katherina Kolkmann (1)
TEN MEN RESCUED Dover and Dungeness, Kent. At 4.58 a.m. on 29th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch ship, Katherina Kolkmann was in collision with the British coaster Gannet five miles south of...
Dawn
NEAR PORT ISAAC Padstow, Cornwall. At 12.55 p.m.
on i6th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain that three Port Isaac fishing boats were still at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather. The honorary secretary...