LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rubber Dinghy
Appledore, Devon.—Just before noon on the 12th of June, 1950, the Northam Burrows coastguard reported a rubber dinghy drifting to sea with two men aboard. At 12.5 the life-boat Violet Armstrong was launched in a slight sea with an easterly...
St. Anne's Life-Boat Disaster Fund
ON the night of 9th December, 1886, three Lancashire life-boats, St. Anne's, Southport and Lytham, were launched to the help of the barque Mexico, of Hamburg, which had gone on the sands between Southport and Formby. A gale was blowing,...
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Awards to Honorary Workers
Mr. H. C. WHITEHEAD, has been appointed an Honorary Life Governor of the Institution in recognition of the valuable services he has rendered as Honorary Secretary of the Appledore Life-boat Station for 28 years; and has been presented with a...
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Seaham, Durham.—At six o'clock on the evening of the 25th of June, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a boy had been cut off by the tide at Pincushion Rock, Ryhope. Ten min- utes later the life-boat George Elmy was launched. The...
A Small Boat from Kingsley
Clovelly, Devon.—At 11.20 on the night of the 15th cf May, 1948, the Rev.
H. C. A. S. Muller, of Appledore. landed in a small boat from the motor pleasure boat Kingsley, of Barnstaple, and reported that the boat's...
H.M.S. Fossbeck
SEPTEMBER 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. A leading seaman on H.M.S. Fossbeck had his skull fractured when a bucket of ashes fell on him, and at six in the morning the motor life-boat Langham, on temporary duty at the station, was launched, with a...
Nova
DOCTOR TAKEN TO GERMAN MOTOR VESSEL St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 6.11 on the morning of the 8th March, 1963, the St. Peter Port signal station informed the honorary secretary that the German motor vessel Nova of Stade, which was seven miles...
Oneida
On the 3rd August a S.S.W. gale was blowing, ac- companied by a heavy ground sea, and about 11.20 a telephone message was received stating that a fishing boat was outside, and unable to make the harbour. A look-out was kept, and when, some...
Sea Mist
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 5.33 p.m.
on igth August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht half a mile east of the harbour entrance had run aground and had fired distress signals. The...
Superb
During a light northerly wind with heavy sea on the 16th March, it was reported that a fish- ing vessel between four and five miles to the north of Buckie had had her mast carried away. The crew of the Life-boat Maria Stephenson were...