LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Barges Ada and Charles Little
SOUTHEND, ESSEX.—A gale of wind having sprung up on the 2nd March, it was feared that the barge Ada, which had arrived from London with a load of granite, would be in need of help. She was lying about half a mile S.E. of the pier-head. The...
A Fishing Coble
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE.—On the 29th January a gale from N.N.W. sprung up, accompanied by a rough sea, and the cobles which had gone out fishing returned home. One of the boats, however, had not come in, and as it was evident she would encounter...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
TWO YOUNG PEOPLE DROWNED Hastings, Sussex. At 12.15 p.m. on Thursday the 19th September, 1963, the coxswain was told by the skipper of the fishing vessel Rose that a small sailing dinghy had apparently capsized and that there was the body of...
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Selsey, Sussex.—18th August, 1938.
At about 4 P.M. the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the life-boat station that two women bathers were in difficulties off the West Beach, Selsey.
A moderate...
Star of Bethlehem
ROBIN HOOD'S BAY, YORKSHIRE.—The fishing coble Star of Bethlehem, of Scarborough, was seen some distance off the bay, on the morning of the 30th April, and, as the heavy sea then running'would render -it very dangerous for her to...
The Royal Marine Landing Craft L.136
GROUNDED CREW A red flare sighted in the vicinity of the Bernbridge Ledge buoy on 14th June, 1971, led to the Bembridge, Isle of Wight, life-boat the Jack Shayler and the Lees being launched at 11.40 p.m.
in an east north...
Apeloiter
Weymouth, Dorset - At 12.02 a.m.
on 9th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was anchored one hundred yards offshore of Chesil Cove. Two men on board had come ashore to obtain fuel...
Maybe
Ramsgate, Kent.—About 10.33 in the morning of the 15th of August, 1948, the coastguard reported that a yacht, which had been heading for the Goodwin Sands, had ignored a warning fired by the East Goodwin Lightship and was now lost to sight....
The S.S. Cornish
The S.S. Cornish Rose, of Liverpool, bound from Fowey to Preston, with a crew of nine, got into difficulties when about twenty-one miles north of Pendeen on the evening of the 6th December. Her fires had been extinguished by heavy seas, and...
Guernsey Coast
MOTOR VESSEL REFLOATED Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 7.20 in the morning of the 27th of October, 1947, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Guernsey Coast, of London, was ashore five miles north-east of North Foreland with her steering...