LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Normandy (1)
NEWHAVEN AND EASTBOURNE. — The paddle-steamer Normandy, of and for Newhaven from Dieppe, with 130 passengers and a general cargo, stranded on a reef of rocks called the Ledge, opposite Holywell, near Eastbourne, in a dense fog, a light S....
Ewell
REFLOATING A STRANDED STEAMER Caister, Norfolk.—At 12.30 in the afternoon of January llth, 1947, a steamer was seen to have stranded on the Caister Shoal, half a mile east by south of the life-boat station. She made distress...
Windrush
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 1.20 in the afternoon, on the 21st of October, 1950, the life-boat coxswain reported that a motor launch had hoisted a distress signal, a mile east of the station and about one and a half miles off...
A Rigid Inflatable Boat
Grounded crew pulled to safetyOn 11 August last year, a small rigid inflatable boat (RIB) with two people on board ran aground on West Pole Sands, on Hayling Island, Hampshire. Hayling Island lifeboat station launched the Atlantic 75...
Two Rowing Boats
SIX RESCUED FROM TWO BOATS Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 3.45 on the afternoon of the 6th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four children were in difficulties in a rowing boat off Proud Giltar. Twelve minutes...
Rachel and Premier
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 12th of December,1957, the coxswain saw that the weather was deteriorating and asked permission of the honorary secretary to launch the life-boat to escort two fishing cobles still at...
Mannin
MCH. 20TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.
During the afternoon a whole gale sprang up from the N.W., bringing with it a heavy sea.
A watch was kept for the local fishing smack Mannin, which was at sea. As nothing...
Tony
On the morning of the 25th February the local motor fishing boat Tony put to sea, with the life-boat coxswain and two other men on board. Later in the day the weather turned rough, and the second coxswain made enquiries for the boat. The...
Fishing Boats (1)
BERWICK-ON-TWEED. — Five fishingboats having been overtaken by a sudden heavy gale from the S.E., on the morning of the 15th October, were seen running for the harbour, and as the tide was low, and there was a strong sea on the bar, it was...
Our "Life-Boat Saturday" Fund
ANOTHER year of " Life-boat Saturday " work has closed, and notwithstanding the great hindrance to advancement in the shape of a General Election, and County Council and School Board Elec- tions, good progress has been made, up-...
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