LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rowing Boat (3)
Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the collier Effra had sighted a small rowing boat with two men on board which needed help four miles north-east...
Timbo, of Whitby
DURING the severe storms last December six Life-boat men lost their lives while on service. Five of them were members of the crew of the Life-boat at Rhoscolyn, in Anglesey, and the sixth belonged to the Boat at Johnshaven, in...
Onward
On the •morning of the 23rd October, at about 7 o'clock, the ketch Onward, of Montrose, was observed in the offing, and as there was a heavy sea on the bar, with scarcely any wind, it was realized that the vessel would incur...
Kingfisher
Dover, Kent. At 9.36 on the morn- ing of the 2nd of February, 1960, the coastguard told the coxswain that a boat was burning flares off Shakespeare cliff to the west of Dover. At 9.55 the life-boat Southern Africa put out in a moderate south...
Mazurka
Longhope, Orkneys.—At 10.10 on the night of the 3rd of March, 1949, rockets were seen in the direction of Swona, and the life-boat crew assembled while the coastguard made enquiries.
At 10.30 they reported flares to the...
Two Canoes
Eastney, Hampshire. At 4.15 p.m.
on 6th November, 1965, a fisherman told the honorary secretary that a wildfowler was waving for assistance on South Binness Island. After receiving confirmation of the report from the...
Jane and Ann
Shortly after noon on the 30th October a telephone message was received stating that a ship was showing signals of distress in Bhos Bay. The assembly signal was fired for the crew of the Life- boat, and the boat Theodore Price was promptly...
Bermuda
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.10 on the morning of the 12th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel appeared to be aground one mile north-west of Mid Barrow lightvessel. The life-boat crew were...
Freedom
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 3.42 on the morning of the 14th of July, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that a yacht with a crew of two was missing in the River Blackwater.
The message was passed by radio-...
A Canoe
Ramsgate, Kent. — 22nd August.
Two German students had been re- ported as six miles east of the East Goodwin light-vessel in a canoe. The life-boat went out to look for them, but they reached Ramsgate without help.—Rewards,...