LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MARCH 2ND. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.

At 5 P.M. the naval authorities reported that the S.S. Domala had been bombed by eriemy aircraft in the Channel, and that the Dutch steamer Jonge Willem was off Newhaven, with survivors on...

GORLESTON.—On the11th November, at 7 P.M., the Life-boat Leicester went off to a vessel which was showing signals of distress in the roads, during a heavy gale from S.W. The vessel proved to be the brig Anna Maria, of Blyth, bound from...

Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—On the morning of the 8th September the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore at Dundonnie Head, about one mile south of Buchan-ness lighthouse.

A moderate south gale was blowing, with a...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At one o'clock in the morning of the 9th of August, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a boat appeared to be in difficulties between West Mersea and Bradwell, and at half past one the motor life-boat Edward Z....

Cromarty, Ross and Cromarty.

At 9.4 a.m. on 28th October, 1965, a small fishing boat was reported in trouble off Dunrobin Castle, Golspie. The lifeboat Lilla Marras, Douglas and Will proceeded at 9.22 in a violent...

Mr D. K. Redford, who is a member of the Committee of Management, was awarded the CBE in the New Year Honours List.

* * * After double gold medallist Dick Evans, ex coxswain of Moelfre lifeboat, took part in the BBC...

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 21st of December, 1959, the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was returning to her station from an exercise, during which she had taken Christmas parcels to the Helwick and St....

The drought in 1949 was so severe that the Council at Rhyl would not allow the launching tractor to be washed with fresh water, so her drivers washed her at sea. - View image in PDF