LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Agenese
WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—Signal guns were fired by the Newarp Lightship on the morning of the 5th May and a vessel with only one mast standing was seen to be drifting on the outer side of the lightship.
The Life-boat Margaret...
The S.S. Stancourt
JANUARY 30TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. At 1.45 P.M. the Carnoustie coastguard reported a vessel ashore on the Abertay Sands, and ten minutes later the motor life-boat Mona was launched. A strong gale was blowing from the south-east, with a...
Seaflower
Stromness, Orkneys.—At 9.30 on the night of the 1st of November, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the motor fishing boat Seaflower, which had left Flotta for Houton with a crew of three was overdue, and at 9.45 the life-boat J.J.K.S.W....
Fourteen Men Rescued from Motor Vessel
COXSWAIN William Harland of Whitby has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for the rescue of the crew of fourteen of the motor vessel Fred Everard of London on 2yth November, 1965.
The honorary...
Category: Services
Earnest and Dove
At 9.40 A.M.
on the 21st April it was reported that a shrimp boat was dismasted in the roads and in distress. As it was blowing a moderate gale from S.S.W., with a heavy sea, the No. 1 Life-boat Mark, Lane was launched, and...
A Spitfire Aeroplane (8)
JUNE 29TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN.
A Spitfire aeroplane had been seen to dive into the sea, but nothing was found.- Rewards, £6 17s. 6d..
From Foreign Life-Boat Services
Since the war ended the Institution has been in touch with several of the foreign life-boat services. In September 1944, as soon as France was liberated, it heard from the French service which reported that it had suffered great...
Category: Articles
Two Vessels
Again on the night of the 17th December, I in answer to signals of distress in Cardiff | Eoads, this Life-boat went off when it was ! blowing hard at N.W., and remained by \ two vessels which had come into collision and until they were out...
The Cousins
On the 2nd October the Life-boat was again called out for service, a vessel being reported in distress near the Crosby light-vessel. The boat proceeded through a very heavy sea, the wind blowing strong gale from W.N.W., and on her way found...
Yacht Aquila
Margate, Kent - At 4.27 p.m. on 7th December, 1969, it was learnt that the 50 ft. ketch yacht Aquila, on passage from Newhaven to London with a crew of four, had fired red flares. She had ripped her mainsail in a sudden squall and had...