LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Buttons and Cards:
Buttons and cards: sorting through a few of the hundreds of thousands of buttons and postcards that were sent in by viewers of BBC TVs Blue Peter are one of the programme's presenters, Janet Ellis, and Duncan Chilcott of Phillips Fine... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Martaban
POOLE.—On the 27th March, at about 2 A.M., the Poole Life-boat proceeded out in reply to signals of distress shown by the ship Martaban, of Greenock, which had stranded on the Hook Sand, and found that 6 of her crew had left her in one of...
Six Fishing Cobles
On the 6th December a strong gale of wind, accompanied by a heavy sea, came on suddenly, and six of the fishing- l cobles belonging to the port, each con- taining 3 men, were overtaken by the storm. On their perilous pgpition being observed,...
An Aeroplane (48)
APRIL 24TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 6.30 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea one and a half miles north-east from the look-out, and at 6.40 P.M. the motor life-boat The Lord Southborough...
Taia and Standig
Dover, Kent. At 8.5 p.m. on nth November, 1965, a yacht in Dover harbour was reported to be in danger of capsizing against a Trinity House pilot cutter which had it in tow. The life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings at 8.18 in an...
Tumbler
SECOND COXSWAIN PUT ABOARD YACHT Ramsgate, Kent. At 9.8 on the morning of the 14th April, 1963, the east pier watchman informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on the harbour bar. There was a moderate to fresh south-westerly...
Barendsz
APRIL 26TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE.
The motor vessel Barendsz, of Rotterdam, was flying a four-flag signal, but it was found to be her name in code and she had only come in close for shelter in an easterly gale. Two...
Pilot Me and Success
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 10 A.M.
on the 18th April, 1938, the motor fishing boats Pilot Me and Success put to sea to haul their crab pots. Theweather was showery, and the sea strong. On the flood tide the sea grew worse...
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