LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
June (1)
WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. At 1.25 in the morning of the 22nd of May, 1943, the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station that a vessel was ashore at Kettleness. A light northerly wind was blowing, the weather was fine and the sea was smooth....
Category: Services
Treacle for Oil
READERS of The Lifeboat know that oil has on various occasions been used with great effect in calming the rough water round a shipwrecked vessel. A paper on its value was read by the Chief Inspector of Life-boats at the International...
Category: Articles
Folda
NOVEMBER 19TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 10.10 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel near the N.E. Swin Lightship had been attacked by German aeroplanes.
A light S.W. breeze was blowing, with...
Nancy
At 7.40 P.M.
on the llth November, a message was received from the Yarmouth Coast Guard stating that a vessel was burning flares off Yarmouth Pier, and that the Yarmouth Life-boat was unable to launch. The Coxswain of the...
Ceremonies
Handing over of City of Edinburgh SUPPORT FOR THE Edinburgh lifeboat appeal has been forthcoming from every sector of the communities of both Edinburgh and Fraserburgh: commerce, industry, the professions, charitable trusts, worthy bodies,...
Category: Inaugurations
Daleby
DECEMBER 5-6TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. AND HARTLEPOOL. DURHAM.
At 5 P.M. a message was received from the Port War Signal Statlon at South Gare, that a vessel was ashore on the North Gare a n d might have to be abandoned....
Daleby (1)
DECEMBER 5-6 TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. AND HARTLEPOOL. DURHAM.
At 5 P.M. a message was received from the Port War Signal Statlon at South Gare, that a vessel was ashore on the North Gare and might have to be abandoned. A...
A Sailing Dinghy
Dungeness, Kent.—At 4.24 in the afternoon, on the 9th of April, 1950, the Lade coastguard telephoned that a sailing dinghy had capsized half a mile off Littlestone, tipping two people into the sea. At 4.38 the life-boat Charles Cooper...
Fishing Boats (1)
SEVEN FISHING BOATS ESCORTED TO HARBOUR Whitby, Yorkshire. On the afternoon of the 9th November, 1962, anxiety was felt for the safety of local fishing boats which were still at sea, and at 1.20 it was decided to launch the life-boat. At...
Jewel
Ramsgate, Kent.—On the evening of the 17th of August, 1951, the coast- guard reported a yacht aground on the Brake Sands. As she was listing heavily and darkness was approaching the life-boat Prudential left her moor- ings at 8.57 to help...