LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Silver Spray
AUGUST 28TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At ten at night the coastguard telephoned that a light had been seen to the south. A south-south-west gale was blowing and the sea was very rough. A watch was kept, and when a flare...
Zeebrugge 476
SEARCH FOR SEAMAN At 2 p.m. on loth June, 1964, the coastguard asked 'the honorary secretary if the life-boat would launch to search for a seaman who was missing from the Belgian trawler Zeebrugge 476 which had sunk at 9.20 a.m. two...
Shoreline
ONCE AGAIN another year has passed and 1982 has been the best year yet for Shoreline recruiting, due largely to the great support that we have had from our existing members. Our membership now stands at more than 92,000 and I am certain that...
Category: Articles
Gay Bet
CALLS BY CRUISER Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.48 p.m.
on 27th October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a flashing light and calls for help had been seen and heard 400 yards off No. 4 Martello Tower by...
Louci Gougy
Walmer, Kent.—At 12.10 A.M. on the 26th May, 1939, a message was received from the South Goodwin Light-vessel through the Deal coastguard that a vessel was ashore on the sands to the N.E. by E. A N.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate...
Lady Baring
ALL associated with the Institution will join in sympathy with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., the chairman of the com- mittee of management, in his sorrow at the death of Lady Baring, on 9th June, after a long illness. Lady Baring her- self for...
Category: Obituaries
Gull (1)
Margate, Kent. At 9.45 on the morning of the 27th of June, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec-retary that a motor yacht had broken down two miles north-east of Kingsgate and was sending distress signals by morse lamp. At 10.4 the...
A British Steamer
DEC. 4TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A British steamer had been sunk by enemy action ten miles east of Withernsea, but when the life-boat arrived she found no one on board, and it was thought that the crew had been rescued by...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston (1)
GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK On the 26th October, 1941, determined efforts were made by the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat to give help to the crew of the S.S. English Trader, of London.
COXSWAIN CHARLES A....
Category: Medals
A Sailing Dinghy (6)
DAMAGE BY WIND Life-boat O.N. 44-001. At 2.30 p.m.
on the same day, a capsized sailing dinghy was sighted three miles south-west of Egypt Point, Isle of Wight. Three people were clinging to the hull in moderate seas after a...