LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Boat (1)
DANGEROUSLY CLOSE At 8.50 p.m. on 9th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small motor boat was in difficulties off Trebetherick Point. The sea was slight with light south-westerly...
Niels
BROUGHTY FERRY, N.B.—It was reported, about 5 P.M. on the 4th March, that a schooner had gone ashore on the Lady Bank, and when she could 'be seen through the snow and drift, which was only at intervals, she appeared to be partially...
Christine Elisabeth
HARWICH.—At about 10 A.M. on the 13th November the steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was called out and proceeded with the Reserve No. 3 Lifeboat in tow to the upper part of the Long Sand, where the three-masted schooner Christine...
Fishing Boats (2)
Wick, Caithness-shire.— Shortly before midday on the 20th March, 1939, the life-boat coxswain reported that several small fishing boats beating in towards the bay were in danger. The weather was squally, with hail showers,and a very strong N...
Notre Dame de Lourdes
Margate, Kent.—The motor life-boat Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was launched at 10.20 A.M. on the 10th January, in answer to a message from North Foreland wireless station, received through the coastguard, that a trawler about...
Casita
Torbay, Devon - At 8.45 p.m. on June, 1967, the coastguard and the honorary secretary conferred with regard to an unidentified 'Mayday' call which had been received. It was decided not tolaunch the life-boat until further information...
Sailing Dinghy Sea Elf
Boulmer, Northumberland. At 3.46 on the afternoon of the 21st August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy was in difficulties off Howick Seahouses farm.
At 3.58 on the ebbing tide the...
Hector
The No. 1 Life-boat of this station, the Parsee, after two unsuccessful attempts, boarded the Hector, a brigantine of New- castle, which on the 9th December was run ashore by her crew to avoid foundering.
This service was...
A Motor Yacht
Long tow in difficult conditions for Skegness and Humber lifeboats Skegness and Humber lifeboats were both involved in a long service when conditions became too severe for a classic, 1920s-built motor yacht on a delivery passage from Great...
A Flying Boat
St. Marys, Scilly Isles.—13th Octo- * ber, 1939. The coastguard had re- ported a message from the R.A.F. that a flying boat had come down approx- imately fifty miles to the west of Scilly Isles, but shortly after the life-boat was launched...