LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
R.A.F. Salvage Vessel Dutch Lady
MARCH 21ST. - SHOREHAM HAR-BOUR, SUSSEX. At 5.18 in the afternoon a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel off Goring was leaking badly and needed the help of a life-boat. There was no wind and the sea was smooth, but there...
Chesterfield Branch and Shoreline Members
Chesterfield branch and Shoreline members met at Stevington House, Brookside, the home of Harry and Sybil Lin/ev, on July 18 for a wine and buffet supper in the garden. Nearly all the food was given by the committee who also prepared and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dolphin
JULY 23RD. - BEAUMARIS, ANGLESEY.
While on passage from the Clyde to Littlehampton, the yacht Dolphin was storm-bound off Penmon Point. She was storm-bound for two days and her crew of two were short of food and water. As...
Flower o' Mary
On the evening of the 19th November the steam drifter Flower o' May, of Banff, made to enter the harbour. She was returning from the English fishing grounds, and, being short of coal, had been towed about fifty miles before being cast...
Gull (1)
Margate, Kent. At 9.45 on the morning of the 27th of June, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec-retary that a motor yacht had broken down two miles north-east of Kingsgate and was sending distress signals by morse lamp. At 10.4 the...
Awards to Coxswains
DUIUNI; September and October the following awards were made to Cox- swains :— ; To THOMAS LANGLANDS, on Ms retirement after serving continuously as Coxswain for 43 years—22 years as Coxswain of the Upgang Life-boat, and 21 years as Coxswain...
Category: Awards
Minnie Elkin
LYDD, DUNGENESS.—The crew of the Lifeboat R.A.O.B. were summoned on the 29th November, during a moderate N.
breeze and hazy weather, signals of distress having been reported. The men promptly assembled, and at 1 A.M.,...
Clarkeden
INJURED SEAMAN Penlee, Cornwall. At 9 p.m. on i8th November, 1964, the honorary secretary told the coxswain that the motor vessel Clarkeden was approaching with an injured man aboard. At 12.45 a.m. the life-boat Solomon Browne was launched...
A Rubber Dinghy from a Whitley Bomber
OCTOBER 11TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At 9.55 in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a rubber dinghy, with two men on board, was in the sea eleven miles E.S.E. of Skegness. A strong northerly wind was...
A Fishing Boat
Dover, Kent. At 2.55 on the after- noon of the 18th of July, 1959, a fishing boat was seen in difficulties near the wreck buoy south of the eastern en- trance to Dover harbour. The life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings five minutes...