LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Wellington Bombing Aeroplane (1)
JULY 26TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At about 2.42 in the morning the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea about a mile north of Cromer, and the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 3 A.M.. A moderate...
Fosdyke Trader
Caister, Norfolk. At 4.10 on the morning of the 26th of January, 1958, the Great Yarmouth coastguard told the coxswain that the motor vessel Fosdyke Trader of Hull was aground on Caister shoal 400 yards west-north-west of Caister Elbow buoy....
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SEARCH FOR AIRCRAFT Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 5.25 p.m. on 5th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an aircraft with two occupants was overdue at Shoreham Airport. The lifeboat Dorothy and Philip Constant was...
Coming Ashore
One of the four survivors of a steamer which was blown up on 15th November, 1939, and sank in a few minutes with her crew of thirteen. Nine were drowned. Four were picked up from the sea by another steamer, three of them badly injured, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Religious Service on a Life-Boat
The annual service at Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailing Smack
Lowestoft, and Kessingland, Suffolk.— 20th October. A sailing smack had sunk, but her crew took to their boat and were picked up by another smack.
—Rewards, Lowestoft, £19 19s. 6d.; Kessingland, £23 8s....
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Aberdovey, Merioneth. At 6.50 p.m.
on 7th August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two people were stranded on an isolated rock below the cliffs at Berth. At 6.55 the inshore rescue boat launched in a...
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St. M»ry'«, Islei of Scilly —About 9.0 in the morning, of the 7th of January, 1951, it was learned that a keeper on the Bishop Rock Lighthouse was very ill. There was a relief available. A doctor was called and on getting...
Pilot Me II, Success, Progress, Provider A and Lead Us.
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 9.15 in the morning of the 10th of December, 1951, the coastguard reported that the local Pilot Me II was approaching the harbour. The sea was rough and a strong northerly wind was blowing. At 9.25 the...
Fishing Cobles (1)
On the 5th April a heavy broken sea on the bar prevented the majority of the fishing fleet from putting out to sea, but three of the cobles ventured out, incurring great risk and causing considerable excitement. About 1.30 two of them...