LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Magnet
WITHOUT SLEEP FOR SEVENTY HOURS Ramtgate, and Walmer, Kent.—At 5.56 in th« evening of the 26th of No- vember, 1947, the coastguard tele- phoned that information had been received from Margate that a barge with her topmast...
Mr. Punch In 1892. Mr Punch to the Life-Boatman
From Punch, February 13th, 1892, on the occasion of the wreck of the Eider Reproduced by kind permission of the proprietors of PUNCH.
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Barrus
Mariner doesn't just promise reliability.
It proves it! If you're considering buying an outboard, whatever the size, you'll have noticed that almost every manufacturer promises greater reliability as an...
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Norman Craig
On the afternoon of the 21st April the trawler Norman Craig, of Ramsgate, on passage from Shoreham to Fleetwood, sailed into Swanage Bay with her rigging in disorder, and her sails half up. A moderate south-east breeze was blowing, with a...
Alroy
At 5.45 A.M. on the 4th September the Coast- guard received a telephonic message from the Gunfleet Light-house, stating that a schooner was on the sands.
Without delay the Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 proceeded under...
A Naval Aeroplane
OCT. 2 0TH. SELSEY, AND SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 1.13 A.M.
a message was received from the coastguard that the Bognor police had reported a naval aeroplane down in the sea off Bognor. A northerly breeze was blowing. The...
Dagny
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 4.22 on the morning of the 23rd of June, 1951, during a thick fog, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was sounding SOS signals on her siren opposite the coastguard station. At 4.37 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann...
Highland Laddie
Dungeness, Kent - At 11.30 a.m. on 12th July, 1967, news was received that the cabin cruiser Highland Laddie was aground off Lade. The life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 11.50 in a fresh...
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...