LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Monbretia
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 19th of October, 1952, the coastguard rang up to pass on a report from the North Foreland Radio Station. The station had received a wireless message from the motor fishing boat Monbretia...
Sarus
Tynemouth, Northumberland. On the 30th of May, 1959, the life-boat Tynesider was on passage to her station from Sunderland after a routine survey when the signalman saw a sailing dinghy which appeared to be in difficulties one mile east of...
An Auster Aircraft
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent ; Hast- ings and Eastbourne, Sussex. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 7th of February, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Eastbourne that an Auster aircraft was missing on a flight from Lympne...
A Cabin Cruiser
Swanage, Dorset.—At 7.36 on the evening of 9th of October, 1957, the Studland coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen in the direction of Canford Cliffs. The life-boat R.L.P.
was launched at 8.1 in calm...
A Hunter Aircraft
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 5.48 on the 7th of November, 1957, the coast- guard reported that a Hunter aircraft had crashed into the sea and that the pilot had baled out ten miles north of Lundy. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at...
A Sailing Dinghy
HELICOPTER AND LIFE-BOAT IN SEARCH FOR DINGHY Cromer, Norfolk. At 12.34 on the afternoon of the 12th May, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy was in difficulty four miles north-east of...
Raid on R.N.L.I. Depot
Early in the morning of 7th November, 1969, the nightwatchman at the R.N.L.I. Depot at Boreham Wood, Herts., Mr. Kazimierz Jastrzebski, who is 55, struggled with a gunman who was accompanied by four other men. One of the raiders fired a shot...
Category: Articles
A Barge
On the evening of the 4th of October, 1960, the Dunmore East life-boat rescued the only man on board a barge. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 5, Cox- swain Patrick Power was awarded a second clasp to his bronze...
Pradnik
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 8.32 on the morning of the 5th of December, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Pradnik of Gdynia, Poland, was signalling for immediate medical assistance. There was a fresh...
Kent
Penlee, Cornwall. At eight o'clock on the morning of the 15th August, 1961, the honorary secretary told the coxswain that the life-boat would be needed to land a sick man from the tanker Kent, which was expected to be off Mount's...