LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FISHING VESSEL STRIKES PIER IN NEAR GALE Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 1st November, 1962, the harbour master informed the honorary secretary that several fishing vessels were at sea in deteriorating weather. At 3.0...

RESERVE LIFE-BOAT TAKEN IN TOW Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 11.16 on the morning of the 12th May, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that he had received a request from the reserve life-boat George and Elizabeth Gow for...

Dover, Kent. At 2.15 on the after- noon of the 12th of December, 1958, a message was received from the eastern arm signal station that the trawler Gratitude, which was towing another trawler, the Forseti, to Ramsgate, had broken down with...

Stromness, Orkney.—At 7.42 on the evening of the 16th of July, 1056, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the fishing- boat Halcyon, of Wick, had gone ashore on Black Craig Rock in Hoy Sound. At 7.55 the life-boat Archibald and Alexander...

Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, the police reported that three yachts were in difficulties off West Kirby.

It was then learnt that one of the yachts had sunk and that her crew had been...

Weymouth, Dorset.—At 10.45 on the morning of the 1st of September, 1956, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that a small fishing boat had engine trouble a quarter of a mile west of Portland Bill. At 10.55 the life-boat William and Clara...

Glacton-on-Sea and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.51 on the evening of the 27th of September, 1956, the Clacton coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in need of help off no. 11 Barrow buoy. At 9.10 the Clacton life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring...

Frank and Rose Ide at Poole lifeboat station with their two younger sons, John (r), on leave from the Navy after serving with the South Atlantic Task Force in HMS Glamorgan, and Bob (I), member of Poole lifeboat crew. Frank and Rose's... - View image in PDF