LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Raft
Walton and Frinton, Essex - At i.io p.m. on I7th March, 1967, news was received that a party of students were about to leave the beach at Frinton on a raft to go to the radio transmitting station Radio London. They were told that it was...
Kunishi (1)
FEBRUARY 20TH. - FLEETWOOD, AND BARROW, LANCASHIRE. At 12.20 in the morning news was received at Fleetwood lifeboat station from the harbour staff that a trawler was showing distress signals. A north-westerly gale was blowing, with a very...
A Rubber Dinghy (4)
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...
Siluria
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 9.25 on the night of the 6th of January, 1951, the Spurn Point coastguard reported a message from Kilnsea coastguard that a vessel was ashore half a mile north of the coastguard station. The night was very dark, but the...
A Spitfire Aeroplane (3)
APRIL 14TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS ; THURSO, AND WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.
A Spitfire aeroplane had been reported down in the Pentland Firth, but there was a dense fog and nothing could be found - Rewards : Longhope, £9 13s....
A Phantom Jet
Phantom jet crew ON FRIDAY, December 5,1975, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Skegness lifeboat station at 1400 that an aircraft had crashed into the sea and that two parachutists had been seen.
The 37'...
Patte
Barrow, Lancashire. At 9.5 on the morning of the 12th of May, 1958, the coastguard told the coxswain that a fishing vessel was in difficulty and aground half a mile off Sandy Gap, Walney Island. The life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched at...
Lady Sheena
Margate, Kent - At 9.39 p.m. on nth July, 1966, a sick man on board the m.v.
Lady Sheena, near the east Margate buoy, required medical assistance. At 9.51 a further message requested that the lifeboat take a doctor to the...
The S.S. Harry R. Jones (1)
Troon, Ayrshire. At 10.5 on the morning of the 6th of January, 1961, the life-boat James and Barbara Aitken put out in a light north-north-easterly wind and a slight sea to the Harry R. Jones of Wilmington, to whose help she had gone the day...
A Yacht
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At six o'clock on the evening of the 15th of September, 1950, a resident telephoned the harbour master that a yacht was in difficulties. At 6.20 the life-boat Dunleary II was launched in a smooth sea...