LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Feathered friend
28 January: Littlehampton Crew Member Jon Maidment is pictured with ‘Sammy’ the swan. The crew found Sammy bleeding and in distress with fishing line lodged in his throat, picked him up (but not without some...
Category: Articles
Haleswell
CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—On the 8th October, the schooner Haleswell, of Bridgwater, went ashore outside the Harry Furlongs Bocks, daring a fog. She was observed at 7 A.M., and a boat came ashore from her with two of her crew to ask for the...
Coronation
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 9.3 p.m. on 10th September, 1968, the honorary secretary was notified that flares had been sighted off Pakefield. The lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick slipped her moorings at 9.9 in a gentle south easterly wind with...
Lolita
Mudeford, Hampshire. At 3.50 p.m.
on 28th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a speedboat was hi difficulties off Southbourne.
At 3.55 the inshore rescue boat launched in a...
Providence
Boulmer, Northumberland - At 8.55 a.m. on 8th April, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the coble Providence of Boulmer was late in returning. The sea in the harbour mouth was increasing and visibility was poor owing to...
Ganges
DEAL AND RAMSGATE.—On the 14th October, at about 5 P.M., during a very heavy gale of wind, the Gull Lightship fired signals of distress, in response to which the Deal Life-boat Mary Somerville proceeded to the Goodwin Sands. The Ramsgate...
Marijon
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire. At 10.10 on the night of the 4th of September, 1959, the coxswain received a message from Abersoch that a 14-feet motor boat with three men on board was overdue. The boat had last been seen at six o'clock off...
Scene 2
As she was coming in the smack struck the breakwater and immediately sank. One of the three men on board can be seen on the bows preparing to swim for the breakwater where he was rescued by lines. The other two took to the rigging..View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Boat
TWO MEN IN WATER Salcombe, Devon. At 2.45 a.m. on loth August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishing boat had capsized off Bigbury and that two men were in the water. There was a smooth sea with a light...
Calvijn
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At ten o'clock on the morning of the 16th of February, 1961, the mechanic informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Calvijn of The Hague was aground on Newton Point. At...