LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An R.A.F. Aeroplane (1)
Clovelly, Devonshire, and Padstow * No. 1, Cornwall.—19th October, 1939. A message was received that a R.A.F. aeroplane had come down in the sea and the Clovelly life-boat was launched at 10.20 P.M. to search between Hartland Point and...
Carpo
Coverack, Cornwall.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 28th of November, 1954, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that he had heard on his private wireless set a message from a Dutch ship reporting a body seen in the sea nine miles east of...
Zuversicht
Humber, Yorkshire. — At 2.40 in the afternoon of the 1st of April 1952, the Mablethorpe coastguard tele- phoned that a small ship lying at anchor three and a half miles east- north-east of Mablethorpe appeared to be flying a distress signal,...
A Naval Launch from H.M.S. Battleaxe
Exmouth, Devon. — About two o'clock in the early morning of the 6th of July, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat appeared to be aground on the Maer Rocks, but no distress signals were being made and a private motor boat had...
Margaret Hobley
During a moderate northerly gale and heavy sea, on the 6th October, a vessel was observed about 7 A.M. to make signals denoting that she required help. She had been riding to anchor in the Princess Channel, but in a heavy squall lost both...
William Andrew
In re- sponse to a telephone message stating that a schooner was in distress off Formby with her sails torn and her topmast carried away, the steam Life- boat Queen was sent out. On arriving at the place indicated, they found the schooner...
Athenian
At 11.45 A.M.
on 12th May the Honorary Secretary received a telephone message from the Coastguard at Kirkwall that a trawler was ashore on Skea Skerries, Westray Firth, and that the skipper was still on board. As there was...
Announcement
The January number of THE LIFE-BOAT, which was the first edition in the new format, was delayed by the postal strike and many readers did not receive copies until well into March. In that issue we stated that those who have hitherto received...
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Profile...
• COMMANDER Frederick R. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., of Stratford Mill, Stratford- Sub-Castle, Salisbury, who may soon retire as deputy chairman of the R.N.L.I., was born in 1904. His interest in sailing goes back to the age of four, for his...
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Sea Sweeper
Appledore and Dfracombe, North Devon - At 8.35 p.m. on 17th July, 1969, the Hartland coastguard told the Appledore life-boat coxswain that the cabin cruiser Sea Sweeper, with two people on board, was in difficulties one mile west of Baggy...