LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jamaica
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 6.50 a.m. on loth November, 1965, the local trawler Jamaica was reported aground on the sandbank off Lowestoft harbour. She had sent out a 'Mayday' call. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick went out at 7.5 in...
Panda
Hastings, Sussex. At 8.55 on the evening of the llth of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties nine miles south-east-by-south of Hastings. At 9.42 the life-boat...
Clwyd
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 14th of Feb- ruary, 1961, the motor mechanic in- formed the honorary secretary that the yacht Clwyd had run aground on the north side of the Ribble estuary. The...
A Dinghy (3)
Mcelfre, Anglesey.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 14th of August, 1957, a dinghy three miles north-east of Moryn Point, Dulas, was seen drifting out to sea. Five minutes later the life-boat Watkin Williams was launch- ed. There was a rough...
An Aircraft
St. David's, Pembrokeshire - At 10.36 a.m. on 22nd February, 1967, a message was received from the R.N.A.S.
Brawdy that one of their aircraft had gone into the sea in St. Bride's Bay. The life-boat Joseph Soar...
Fast Slipway Boat 2
Although we are well into the project, there will inevitably be many changes to the boat before it enters service (many of which we are planning already), so don't be surprised if the FSB2 delivered to station m 2005 looks a little...
Category: Articles
Pan Gothia
Dungeness, Kent. At 2.5 on the morning of the 18th of June, 1958, the Lade coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man had been lost overboard from the tanker Pan Gothia of Kungsbacka, Sweden, seven and a half miles south-west...
Britannia
— On the morning of the 29th December, as the local motor fishing coble Britannia was at sea, and a very heavy ground swell was breaking across the mouth of the haven, making entry difficult and dangerous, it was decided to send out the...
Pilot Me
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 2 P.M.
on the 23rd January, 1939, a gale was blowing from the N.N.W. with a heavy sea. The motor fishing boat Pilot Me was at sea and as she did not return the No. 1 motor life-boat Mary Ann...
An Aircraft
Broughty'[Ferry, Angus.—7th September, 193'J. Shortly after 10 F.M.information was received that an aircraft had dived into the sea three miles N.E. of the North Carr Lightvessel.
The life-boat found nothing, spoke...