LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles
NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SEA, NORTHUMBERLAND.
—On the 1st July a gale from E.S.E. sprang up at about 4 A.M. Seven fishing cobles had left about four hours previously for the fishing-ground, which is about 15 miles from the shore,...
Fedora
Dungeness, Kent, and Hastings, Sussex.
—On the morning of the 31st January the Italian steamer Fedora, of Genoa, and the Russian steamer Pravda were in collision in a position reported to be about fourteen miles from...
R.N.L.I. Active In Spanish Waters
LAST year the R.N.L.I, sent two of its latest life-boats to Spain, the mission following a visit to this country by a Spanish Red Cross delegation to investigate the structure of the R.N.L.I, and to look at various types of...
Category: Services
Ocean Spirit
Newhaven's Arun class lifeboat Keith Anderson closes in on the MFV Ocean Spirit after the vessel ran aground while entering Newhaven Harbour on 31 March 1994.
Coxswain/mechanic Michael Beach had been about to leave the...
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Category: Advertisement
L.I. 47
^ Selsey, Sussex.—At about 8.25 A.M.
on the 8th of April the coastguard reported that the fishing boat L.I.47 had capsized about two miles W.S.
W. of Selsey Bill, and that another fishing boat was near -...
Zulu
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 23rd of August, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the harbour master at Laxey had reported a yacht making heavy weather between two and three miles off Laxey...
Warbler
TRAWLER AGROUND At 10 a.m. on 25th January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Warbler was aground on the Newcombe Sands off the Lowestoft harbour entrance. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick went to the...
Countess Mountbatten
Lady Moimtbatten, C.I., G.B.E..
D.C.V.O., wife of Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten of Burma, died on the 21st of February, 1960, at the age of 58.
The wide range of charitable work with which she was...
Category: Obituaries
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COASTGUARDSMAN LOWERED TO MAN AFTER CLIFF FALL Sennen Cove, Cornwall. At 7.17 on the evening of the 9th May, 1962, the coastguard told the coxswain that a man was thought to be trapped on the cliffs at Lands End, but that he could not be...