LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat
EASTNEY, HAMPSHIRE, ILB crew were alerted at 0315 on September 7, 1974, when the honorary secretary was informed by Shoreham Coastguard that red flares had been seen in the vicinity of Langstone Channel. ILB D184 was launched at 0343, by...
Saint Ronan (1)
Dover, and Walmer, Kent. At 7.12 on the morning of the llth of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Dover that two vessels had been in collision near the South Goodwin lightvessel. At 7.31 the coastguard reported...
Chart Key
1 - No. 1100 R.A.F. Marine Craft Unit.
2 - R.N. Whirlwinds from station flight available for S.A.R. duty from 08.00 hours to sunset.
3 - Coastal Command Shackletons available for long range S.A.R.
Category: Charts
Appeal for the Life-Boat Institution
To help support this noble cause May we not plead in vain; God help the hearts that risk their lives For others on the main.
Far on the angry billows deep, Mid lightning's vivid gleam, "Where heav'n's...
Category: Poetry
Special Gifts for the Life-Boat Service
As readers of The Life-Boat are aware, the Institution is always glad to receive sums for the provision not only of Lifeboats, but of the many indispensable accessories, which vary from a slipway, costing sometimes as much as, and more than,...
Category: Donations
Awards to Honorary Workers
IN recognition of long and valuable co-opera- tion, the Gold Brooch or Pendant and the Record of Thanks have been awarded to the following Honorary Officials of Branches and Guilds and other Honorary Workers :— Mr. EDWARD DEAN, ...
Category: Awards
Trojan Star
Blyth, Northumberland. — At nine o'clock on the night of the 4th of Jan- uary. 1957. the coastguard telephoned to say the North Seaton police had re- ported that the fishing boat Trojan Star.
with a crew of two. had put...
A Canoe
JULY 17TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 8.21 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a canoe, with a boy on board, had capsized oil Ness Point. A gentle S.W. breeze was blowing, but the sea was...
The Fawn
About noon on the 31st July a small fishing smack, the Fawn, of Yarmouth, was seen to be aground on the east side of the Barber Sands. As the sea, which was very broken on the sands, commenced break- ing over the smack, and the crew had no...
Fishing Boats
On the even- ing of the 12th September fourteen of the fishing-boats belonging to Whitby went out to fish. Later the wind fresh- ened considerably from N.N.E. and bad weather followed, causing them to make for port again. About midnight,...