LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Keeping Watch
Portsmouth lifeboat volunteers Peter Slidel and Tina Parkinson were going about their daily lives on 27 February when a drama started to unfold before them.
Peter says: ‘I was enjoying a coffee at Tina’s burger van when I...
Category: Articles
A Fishing Boat (1)
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 6.20 on the evening of the 30th of Novem- ber, 1954, a man at Northbay tele- phoned that a Northbay fishing boat with a crew of two was long overdue.He asked if the life-boat would search for her. At 7.10 the...
Ocean Starlight
At 5.30 a.m. on 5th February, 1967, news was received that a fishing vessel, while leaving Stornoway harbour, had stopped rather suddenly and drifted out of sight under the land inside Helm Head.No distress signals, however, had been seen or...
Akyab
Large flares were seen in the direction of the Cross Sand at 9 P.M. on Sunday the 8th of March, and the Lightships fired guns and rockets. The No. 1 Lifeboat, Covent Garden, went to the sand, and found the three-masted schooner, Akyab, of...
Dragor Maersk
DANISH MOTOR VESSEL IN COLLISION Dungeness, Kent. At 6.18 on the evening of the 22nd April, 1962, the second coxswain told the honorary secretary that he had heard on his wireless a message being passed to North Foreland radio station from a...
Hoity Toity
At 3.52 P.M. on 17th December a request was received from the Calshot Air Station that the Motor Life-boat B.A.S.P. should be sent to the aid of the speed boat Hoity Toity, which had been seen, by a flying boat, to be in distress_spme...
None (6)
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 19th of December, 1954, a message was received from Mizen Head asking if the life-boat would take a relief keeper and stores to the Inish- tearaght Rock lighthouse. At eleven o'clock...
Little Dick
Dungeness, Kent. At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 18th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small fishing boat was in difficulties a mile and a half north-east of the life-boat station. A moderate south-west...
Green Plover
TOW FOR FISHING VESSEL WITH ENGINE TROUBLE Sunderland, Co. Durham. At 6.20 on the evening of the 25th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Green Plover of Sunderland had broken down because...
A R.A.F. Helicopter (1)
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk - At 8 p.m. on 22nd June, 1967, it was learned that a R.A.F. helicopter had crashed about half a mile south of the life-boat station. The life-boat The Royal Thames was launched at...