LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dee Gypsy
IRB TRANSFERRED CREW Blackpool, Lancashire. At 12.40 a.m.
on 28th August, 1965, the police told the honorary secretary that a small yacht was firing distress flares approximately \ mile offshore near the South Pier. At one...
A Motor Boat and a Rowing Boat
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 3.41 in the afternoon of the 22nd of August, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a broken down motor boat and a rowing boat were drifting northwards, on the ebbing tide, in a moderate south-westerly breeze and...
The S.S. Salerno
Humber, Yorkshire—At about 2.30 A.M. on the 29th August, 1938, a message was received from the Donna Nook coastguard that a vessel five miles S.S.E. was firing rockets. A fresh northerly breeze was blowing, with a rough sea, and the weather...
The S.S. Monkton Combe
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 8.35 on the morning of the 13th of February, 1953, the Spurn Point Coastguard reported that the S.S. Monkton Combe, of Bristol, had been in collision with another vessel, and that the Monkton Combe was trying to beach...
The Armed Trawler Olvina
SEPTEMBER 3RD. - SWANAGE, DORSET.
At 7.30 P.M. it was learned from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore under St. Albans Head. The sea was calm, but there was a very thick fog. The motor lifeboat Thomas Markby was...
Minnetonka
APRIL 20TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN. At ten o’clock at night the coastguard telephoned that the customs officer at Cockenzie had reported a ship sending up flares in Aberlady Bay. The motor life-boat George and Sarah Strachan was launched at...
Two Picket Boats from H.M.S. Franklin
Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 5.35 P.M.
on the 3rd October, 1938, a message was received from the East Pier that two picket boats from H.M.S. Franklin, which was lying in Margate Roads, had left harbour to return to her, but had...
A Life-Boat Centenarian
MR. WILLIAM FURBER, of Littlestone, near New Romney, Kent, celebrated his 100th birthday on the 16th of July.
He served in the Navy and then became a coastguard. At the same time he was a member of the life-boat crew at New...
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Gem
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the 18th of December, 1949, the motor fishing boat Gem left Whitby to recover lines left at sea the previous day. During the afternoon the wind freshened and, blowing strongly from the north-west, raised a rough sea at...
Two Boats
Launch team praised THE STORMS which battered the south east coast of England last autumn left Eastbourne lifeboat station behind a three foot high sandbank, 30ft in length.
At 1913 on November 1, 1987, Coxswain Graham Cole...