LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bexhill
On the evening of the 28th October, a flare was seen in the direction of the Brake Sand. A fresh gale of wind was then blowing from the N.N.E. with rain, and there was a heavy sea on the sand.
The Ramsgate Life-boat was at...
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Big problems with little ships I was fascinated to read about the 34 calls to which the Poole lifeboat responded on August Bank Holiday last year. It certainly sounds like the record for one station.
Another interesting set...
Category: Correspondence
Laity F.
Tug on fire THAMES COASTGUARD informed Southend- on-Sea lifeboat station at 1130 on Saturday March 21, 1981. that the tug Laity F was on fire near No 3 Sea Reach Buoy. The crew assembled and took the transport down Southend Pier and at 1148...
A Dinghy (1)
Life-boat 70-001 at the Mumbles, Glamorganshire - At 12.10 p.m. on 5th November, 1967, a member of the life-boat crew saw a small dinghy close by which appeared to be dragging her anchor. Five minutes later the occupant raised anchor and the...
Trustful
Ramsgate, Kent. At 9.38 p.m. on iyth April, 1965, the east pier watchman informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen off the Quern buoy.
The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis proceeded at 9.45 in a strong...
Spero and Blanche
Wells, Norfolk.—On returning from fishing at 1.22 in the afternoon of the 30th of September, 1949, the life-boat coxswain announced that two fishing boats were still out. The weather had worsened and the life-boat Cecil Paine was launched at...
Foam
JUNE 30TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. At 9.22 at night a message was received from Fairlight coastguard that a small boat, off Hastings pier, appeared to be in need of help. A few minutes later the boat had gone ashore by Castle Rocks. The tide was...
Oldest Life-Boat Supporter
Miss Ellen Goodeve, who was probably the oldest active supporter of the life-boat service, died at the Queen Mary Homes in Chislehurst, Kent, in August, 1962, at the age of 103. To within a few months of her death Miss Goodeve was regularly...
Category: Obituaries
Johan
DUNBAR. — At about half-past six o'clock on the morning of the llth March the Coastguards observed a small open boat in a perilous position, it being impossible for her to succeed in reaching the harbour owing to the rough state of the...
H.L.S. 161.
Weymouth, Dorset,—On the 2nd of April, 1949, the life-boat William and Clara Ryland rescued four lives from the tug H.L.S. 161. Rewards, the silver medal to the coxswain, the bronze medal to the motor mechanic, and £19 12*. to coxswain...