LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
William and Edwin
YACHT WAS FOUND At 5.18 p.m. on 22nd October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen off Jury's Gap, Dungeness. The sea was moderate with a corresponding south-westerly breeze. It was almost low...
Life-Boat Carol Singers
At Christmas, in 1927, a choir of twelve, got together by the Honorary Secretary of the Branch at East Grinstead, went carol singing, and were so successful that they were able to send £25 to the Institution. Last Christmas the effort...
Category: Donations
Yacht Marieke
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 1.45 on the morning of the 28th of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a Dutch barge, which had an- chored off the east pier, had engine trouble and needed help to enter the harbour. At 5.31 the...
Myrtle, and Morning Mist
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—About four in the afternoon of the 16th of July, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in difficulties half a mile west of Whitaker Beacon. At 4.15 the life- boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched in a strong...
Emma
On 4th December at 12.30 P.M. the Motor Life- boat Mary Scott was launched to the help of the motor fishing boat Emma, of Southwold, with three men on board, which had been seen by the Coastguard to be flying a distress signal about one mile...
Engine Trouble
SKERRIES | 8 SEPTEMBER
Four people needed our Skerries volunteers when their motorboat had electrical problems and they couldn’t start the engine. The RNLI crew launched just after 11am, quickly...
Category: Articles
White Rose
On the afternoon of the 29th December, 1932, it was learned that all the fishing boats had returned to harbour with the exception of the smallest, the White Rose. As the sea was rough with a moderate S.S.E.
breeze, the...
Otto H.
Cromer, Norfolk.—The motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 2.25 A.M. on the 27th December, 1938, as information had been received from the coastguard that the 2,100 ton Finnish steamer Otto H, of Pori, was aground at Eccles, between...
A Sailing Boat and a Rowing Boat
Criccieth, Caernarvonshire.—At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 14th of August, 1956, the second coxswain reported that he had seen a sailing boat capsize about a mile and a half from Castle Point. The life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was...
Falmouth Crew Members
L-R: Falmouth Crew Members Carl Beardmore, Peter Wood, Dave Nicoll, David Proud, Andy J d with Coxs. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs