LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cetus
Nov. 19TH. - ALDEBURGH: SUFFOLK.
At 4.45 A.M. a message was received from the Orfordness coastguard that a vessel was in distress about two miles from Orfordness Lighthouse. A strong N.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea....
Aspirant
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERIAND.—The schooner Aspirant, of Stavanger, ran into the bay, being unable to beat off the shore in a moderate E. gale, a heavy sea and thick weather, on the 22nd March. The Life-boat Robert and Susan, on her transporting...
George Evans
FISHGUAHD, PEMBROKESHIRE. — The Life-boat Appin rendered valuable assistance to the smack George Evans, of Cardigan, on the 18th April. About 3 P.M. a vessel was reported by the Coastguard showing signals of distress, and the Life-boat...
Maggie
CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—On the 10th August the schooner Maggie, of Ardrossan, bound from Connah's Quay for Swansea with a cargo of bricks, stranded on the Platters Bocks, near the Skerries, during squally weather. The crew, five in number, who...
A Canoe
Mallaig, Inner Hebrides.—The motor life-boat Sir Arthur Rose left her moor- ings at 6.30 in the evening of the 21st of March, 1948, in a south-west gale with a rough sea, to the help of a canoe.
She found her on the beach....
Fishing Boats
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — At 6.10 on the morning of the 8th of June, 1956, the coxswain reported that four local fish- ing boats were returning to the harbour in a heavy sea. A west-north-westerly gale was blowing, and the tide was ebbing....
Dorothy Melinda
Hastings, Sussex. At 3.12 on the morning of the 16th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that red flares had been observed between four and five miles south-east of Fairlight. At 3.35, when the life-boat Lucy Lavers,...
A Life-Boat Crew at Stockport
THIS year marks the twenty-fifth anni- versary of the formation of the Stock- port crew of life-boat auxiliaries. In 1936 three young men were asked to collect on Stockport life-boat day. The following year they were asked again and with a...
Category: Donations
Anne
FLARES WERE SEEN Dungeness, Kent. At 8.35 p.m. on 22nd October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen off Dengemarsh. There was a moderate westerly breeze with a rough sea. At 9.30 the life-boat Mabel...
A Sailing Dinghy
DIVERTED ON PASSAGE Life-boat O.N. 44-001. At i p.m. on I4th February, 1965, the life-boat O.N.
44-001 received whilst on passage between Littlehampton and Cowes a radio message from the coaster Chartsman that she had...