LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Coble
On the 15th January, in a strong south-east breeze and rough sea, one fishing coble only ventured to put to sea, and shortly after 9.30 A.M. it was seen that she was in trouble. The Life- boat Matthew Simpson was launched, and, as...
Peter MacDonald Fulton (1)
Peter MacDonald Fulton Peter Fulton passed away after a long illness on 6 March 2003, aged 76. Peter, a trainer for ICI and the RNR, created structured training for lifeboat crew vital at a time when recruits increasingly came from...
Category: Obituaries
Firefly
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. — At 7 o'clock in the morning of the 17th of July, 1948, the Totland coastguard telephoned that the British steamer Royal Sovereign had reported that she had in tow the motor yacht Firefly, of St....
Vaaren
CRESSWELL.—While a fresh wind was blowing from S.E., accompanied by foggy weather and a heavy sea, on the 13th March, the brig Vaaren, of and from Tvedestrand for Newcastle-on-Tyne, laden with pit-props, stranded at Quarry...
Marzo
At 7.20 r.M.
| on 14th May the signal was lircd denoting the Life-bout was required to assist some vessel in distress, and a ; steamer was seen in the fog making for the shore to the east of...
An Aircraft
Humber, Yorkshire. At 6.11 on the evening of the 16th of January, 1958, the Spurn Point coastguard told the cox- swain superintendent that a local resident had heard an aircraft crash into the sea about four hundred yards from the old...
Readers' Letters and Information
Dear Editor Having been a Shoreline supporter for many years and now an Offshore member, I thought I would write in and air my views on lilos, rubber rings and inflatable dinghies, which are sold at seaside shops: can't we get these toys...
Category: Correspondence
Dulcet Bella and Troglodyte
New Brighton, Cheshire. — At 3.20 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht with three boys aboard was in difficulties in the Rock Channel. At 3.45 the life-boat City of Glasgow, on temporary...
None (2)
At 10.45 P.M. on 25th March a telephone message was received from the Coast- guard that flares had been seen five to six miles W. by S. of the pierhead. The Motor Life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was immediately launched. A strong S.
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A Motor Rescue Dinghy
MAY 5TH . - WELLS, NORFOLK. A motor rescue dinghy had been dropped from an aeroplane to airmen whose aeroplane had come down in the sea and who had got away in their rubber dinghy. The motor dinghy took the other dinghy in tow. This is...