LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Abril
During a thick fog, a strong W.S.W. breeze, and a rough sea on the night of the 16th February, the s.s. AMI, of Bilbao, stranded about two and a half miles to the westward of Clovelly and the crew took to the ship's boats. The steamer...
The S.S. Fulham IV
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At seven o'clock on the evening of the 16th of November, 1955, Lloyds' agent reported that the S.S. Fulham IV, of London, was mak- ing for Gorleston with a sick man, and asked if lie could be...
Rowsley
AUGUST 3RD. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 10.2 A.M. the coastguard reported a trawler under the cliffs at Skirza Head sounding an S.O.S. There was thick fog and a gentle S.S.W. breeze was blowing with a slight sea. The motor...
Petree
YACHT FOUND ABANDONED AND ASHORE Hoylake, Cheshire. At 11.20 on the night of the 2nd June, 1963, the Formby coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen near Hilbre Island, and at 12.6 the reserve life-boat Frank...
Festivity
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 5.12 on the morning of the 23rd of March, 1955, the Polruan coastguard telephoned that a man at Hope Cove had reported hear- ing a wireless message that a vessel was in distress in Mevagissey Bay. At 5.45 the life-boat...
Coxswain Edward Parker
Coxswain Edward Parker, who died on i5th October, 1964, was a former coxswain of Margate life-boat who was awarded the D.S.M. for the part he and his crew played at Dunkirk when the Margate life-boat rescued over 600 British servicemen from...
Category: Obituaries
A Fishing Boat
AID FOR ANGLERS Eastbourne, Sussex. At 1.45 p.m. on 2Oth October, 1963, the secretary of the local angling association told the honorary secretary that two of their members aged 78 and 60 were in a motor boat broken down about four miles off...
Emulate
Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 13th of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that one of the Gourdon fishing fleet, Emulate, was overdue. The life-boat The Edith Clauson-Thue was launched at noon. There was a...
Inigo
Ramsgate, Kent - At 7.45 p.m. on 2ist July, 1966, it was seen that the yacht Inigo off the north end of the South Falls Head required assistance. There was a gale from the north with a very rough sea.
The tide was flooding....
A Gift to the Newhaven Station from Brighton
THE Brighton Round Table, some of whose members -went out on an exercise launch in the Newhaven life-boat in the summer of 1951, has presented a clock to the crew to hang in the boat-house..
Category: Donations