LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Belgian Fishing Boats
On the loth October several Belgian fishing-boats were bound for Lowestoft with Belgian refugees on board, when two of the boats grounded on the Newcome Sands.
As the sea was rough, the Coxswain, John Swan, of the Life-boat...
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Newhaven, Sussex. At 10.22 on the morning of the 30th of December, 1959, the coastguard passed on to the honor- ary secretary a report from the police at Brighton that a woman had fallen in the sea off Saltdean. At 10.35 the life-boat...
Aberdovey's Lifeboat Named
Aberdovey's lifeboat named Aberdovey's Atlantic 75 lifeboat was officially named on Saturday, 16 October at the lifeboat station. The new lifeboat has been generously funded by an appeal to the people of Sandwell in the West Midlands... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Whitby Life-Boat In the Floods
IN the next issue of The Lifeboat will appear a full account, with photographs, of a very unusual service. This was the rescue, on 4th September, by the Whitby No. 2 Pulling and Sailing Life-boat, of five people who had been trapped in...
Category: Services
Lady Sophia
DECEMBER 9TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
About eight at night some of the life-boatmen saw a ship signal SOS by morse and fire a rocket, and at the same time the coastguard reported a vessel in distress about six miles...
The S.S Jersey Queen
OCTOBER 6TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
At 7.15 P.M the coastguard at St. Anthony reported that distress signals had been seen about two and a half miles off the Point. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, with a very rough sea....
Elizabeth Anne and a Schooner
MOELFBE, ANGLESEY.—On the 12th February a very heavy gale from the S.
by W. was experienced, and a large fleet of steamers and sailing craft took refuge in the bay. The storm increased in fury, and the schooner Elizabeth...
A Steamer (10)
JUNE 29TH. - NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN.
A steamer had run ashore on the bar at Dundrum, but declined help and later refloated.
- Rewards, £13 7s. 6d..
Minnie
Workington, Cumberland.—At 4.35 on the afternoon of the 1st of November.
1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the dock police had reported that four youths had put off in the fishing boat Minnie, of Maryport, but that...
Bonnie Lad
A N.N.E.
gale sprang up suddenly early in the morning of the 9th May, while the fishing coble Bonnie Lad, of Scarborough, was at sea. The Life-boat Queensbury was, therefore, launched and proceeded to the Castle foot,...