LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Tug (1)
NOVEMBER 22ND. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. A tug had been mined, and one of the tug’s crew of five was rescued, badly injured, by the hopper which the tug had had in tow, but nothing else of the tug but wreckage could be found.- Rewards,...
A Vessel (7)
DECEMBER 11TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
A vessel had been reported in difficulties, but nothing was found. Later, wreckage was washed up, but there was no trace of the crew of seven. - Rewards, £9 19s. 6d.
A United States Ship
On the 20th of August, 1952, the Ramsgate life-boat went to the help of a United States ship which had been in a collision with a Norwegian tanker.
The American ship broke in two, but the life-boat managed to save her...
A Fishing Coble
CREW TAKEN OFF FISHING COBLE Seaham, Co. Durham. At 8.11 on the morning of the 20th April, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that red flares had been seen two and a half miles north of Seaham. The life-boat George Elmy was launched...
A Wellington Aeroplane (1)
SEARCHING FOR AIRMEN Margate, and Ramsgate, Kent. — Shortly after 7.30 on the night of the 20th of November, 1947, the R.A.F. at Manston reported to the coastguard that a Wellington aeroplane was down in the sea north-east of...
A Speed Boat
New recruits in at the deep end It was Gary Roberts' first ever lifeboat service and Dwynwen Parry was only nine months into her probationary period, but under the wing of Helmsman David Jones, they helped to save a family of four from...
A Vampire Aircraft
Barry Dock, and The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 1.5 on the after- noon of the 12th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretaries at Barry Dock and The Mumbles that a request had been received from the Sea Rescue Co-...
A lucky escape
The new RNLI lifeguard service at Skegness, Lincolnshire, unexpectedly joined forces with the local lifeboat crew when a swimmer was at risk of drowning.
On Monday 20 July, at 5.45pm, Lifeguard Ross Noble was preparing to...
Category: Articles
A Canberra Aircraft
Blackpool and Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire ; Llandudno, Caernarvon- shire ; and Rhyl, Flintshire. Between three o'clock and 3.15 on the afternoon of the 9th of October, 1958, the hon- orary secretaries and coxswains of the life-boat...
A Firefly Aeroplane
Cromarty, Whitehills, and Buckle, Banffshire.—About 1.30 in the after- noon of the 4th of March, 1952, the fishing boat Guiding Star returned to Whitehills with wreckage of a Firefly aeroplane which she reported had crashed about three and a...