LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Boat (3)
Selsey, Sussex. At 3.47 on the after- noon of the 23rd of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing boat had capsized off Bognor Regis. At 3.55 the life-boat John R. Webb, on temporary duty at the station...
Libruna
The barque Libnrna of Arendal, whilst bound from Gothenburg to South Africa, stranded off Shoreham about 5 P.M. on the 15th March. There was a S.W. gale blowing at the time, accompanied by a very heavy sea, and whilst the Life-boatmen were...
Unbe Mendi
On the morning of the 24th February a Seaford resident telephoned to the assistant honorary secretary that a steamer was ashore at Seaford Head. She was the Unbe Mendi, of Bilbao, bound for Rotterdam with a cargo of iron ore. A moderate S.W....
Emsadler and Pandora
Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 6.14 p.m. on 7th April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the tanker Metco advising him that two men were drifting past her in lifejackets. A further...
Gracie
North Sunderiand, Northumberland.— At 9.32 on the morning of the 22nd of October, 1955, the Seahouscs coast- guard rang up to say that a message had been received from the Longstone lightvessel that a fishing boat, with one man on board,...
Accident With a Maroon
A MOST unfortunate accident, resulting in the death of the Coxswain, occurred at Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, on 6th August, on which day Life-boat Day and a Road Practice of the Life-boat were to be held. Coxswain Kneen, in firing the maroon...
Category: Articles
Windsor Rose and June Rose
Cromer, Norfolk. Shortly after noon on the 16th of April, 1960, weather conditions began to deteriorate and some anxiety was felt for two Shering- ham crab boats fishing off Cromer.
The Sheringham coxswain made en- quiries...
Pansy
At 9.40 P.M. on 26th September it was reported that distress signals were being made from the north shore. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Edward and Eliza were promptly assembled, and inquiries were made by telephone for further information...
Your Letters
Famous five In May 1995 I was rescued by Swanage lifeboat, with a helicopter and an inshore Atlantic standing by, from a yacht aground on the Kimmeridge ledge off the coast of Dorset. The tide was falling and the yacht in danger of breaking...
Category: Correspondence
Mrs. E. Leeming
The Institution has suffered a severe loss by the death on February 2oth of Mrs. Eva Leeming, organising secretary for Greater London. She was appointed assistant organising secretary in 1926. In 1935 she became joint organising secretary,...
Category: Articles