LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Newhaven, Sussex.—At 6.15 in the evening of the llth of August, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a rubber dinghy was drifting out to sea, and at half past six the life-boat Jane Holland, on temporary duty at the station, was...

NOVEMBER 11TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.

At about 11 A.M. the police reported that two men were in the sea off the North Shore Boating Pool. A strong westerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat...

MOTOR LAUNCH TAKEN IN TOW Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 31st July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor launch had broken down and was drifting out to sea a mile east-by-south of Penmon...

Margate, Kent.—At 6.30 in the morning of the 6th of April, 1947, the coastguard reported that a vessel was drifting four miles north-north-west of Margate. A fresh south-westerly breeze was blowing, with a rough sea.

The...

7 July: Tower, London Lifeboat crew members saved four lives with minutes to spare when a speedboat sank on the Thames just south of the Millennium Bridge. Unable to stop the water rushing in, the group made an...

"LAURAINE my cousin, Timothy my friend, and myself had a show in which we had on show our colections of buter- flies, moths, birds egg's cigarette cards, stamps, stons, moss and shells.

"Each person had to pay...

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Newbiggin, Northumberland. — At 10.15 on the morning of the 16th of Sep- tember, 1954, the coxswain reported that the weather was worsening and that three fishing cobles were at sea. The coastguard stated that one of them was heading south,...