LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Miss Modesty
Fleetwood, Lancashire - At i p.m.
on 25th April, 1967, a converted prawner was endeavouring to sail up river but was not making much progress against the ebbing spring tide. The yacht was kept under observation and by 6...
La Nievre, of Boulogne
AUGUST 19TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 10.5 in the morning the coastguard reported that a fishing vessel appeared to be out of control two miles south-east by east of the South Goodwin Light-vessel. A moderate south-south-west breeze was blowing,...
A Home-Made Raft
HOLLAND-BOUND RAFT Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 4.50 p.m. on 5th November, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a home-made raft showing a white light was drifting out of Harwich harbour. At 5.8 the life-boat Edian...
A Rescue Boat
Filey ILB launched at 1515 after the crew of a small boat had been reported waving an oar. It was one of the sailing club's own rescue boats and the club's other rescue boat came to her assistance, arriving just after the ILB. The...
An Aeroplane (53)
DECEMBER 17TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO.
CORK. An SOS had been reported from an aeroplane, but later she landed safely.
The representative in Eire of the British Government expressed thanks to the life-boat crew...
A Minesweeper (5)
NOVEMBER 29TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. A minesweeper had been blown up by a mine, and the life-boat put out.
The sea was rough, and an air raid was in progress. Bombs fell near the life-boat. She searched for some hours...
Idler
Caister, Norfolk.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 17th of June, 1951, the Great Yarmouth coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht was flying distress signals about a mile south-east of Winterton. At 4.30 the life-boat Jose Neville was launched....
A Wellington Bombing Aeroplane
APRIL 29TH. - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON.
At 4.45 A.M. the naval officer in charge at Appledore reported that an aeroplane had crashed, and a quarter of an hour later he asked for the life-boat to be sent to help naval and R.A.F....
Bourdrenes Habb
At 2 P.M. on 21st November, the same Life-boat was launehed to the disabled Norwegian brig Brodrenes Saab, of Tons- berg, which vessel exhibited signals of distress, it blowing hard at the time from the N.N.E. At the request of the master...
Shamrock
Dungeness and Hythe, Kent.—On the 8th October, the barge Shamrock, of London, was in distress and the Dungeness Pulling and Sailing Life- boat rescued the crew of three. The Hythe Motor Life-boat also put out and towed in the...