LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
HM Torpedo Boat Destroyers The Cherwell and Ettrick
At about 7.45 P.M. on the 20th -May two of H.M. Torpedo-boat Destroyers, the Oherwell and Ettrick, when near the Barber Sand steaming northward, ran aground. The weather was moderate, but the ships being unable to get clear fired signals for...
Ludwig
Amble, Northumberland.—About 9.55 on the night of the 1st of May, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had fired a rocket east of the Coquet lightvessel. At 10.15 the life- boat J. W. Archer was launched. There was a slight swell...
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Anstruther, Fifeshire. At seven o'clock on the evening of the llth of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor fishing vessel had fired a red flare on a bearing west-by-south of Elie Ness. At...
Loss of a Bell
A BELL which was bought sixty-three years ago by the fish salesmen of Brixham fish market was used for many years as a speedy method of summoning the crew of the Torbay life-boat even before the maroons were fired. The bell was at one time...
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Freelance
Eastbourne, Sussex. At 9.47 a.m. on iyth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a small boat had fired red flares about four miles and a half south-east of the life-boat station. The life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched in...
A Yacht (5)
At 9.52 p.m. on 6th August, 1966, a yacht with two people aboard was reported in difficulties off Fort Albert. At 10.6 the life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe was launched. The tide was flooding.
There was a westerly wind...
None (60)
NOV. 25TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
Two heavy explosions at sea had been reported. The life-boat went first to the East Newcombe Buoy but found nothing.
She then went north to Corton Light-vessel which told...
Jessica, of Newhaven
OCTOBER 3RD. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.
At 8.50 at night a message was received from the Southern Railway Company that a small yacht had fired distress signals off the east pier. A west-north-west breeze was blowing, with a choppy...
Yes I'D Do It All Again By Rosemarie Ide
IT WAS ONE of those glorious days. A day to be taken out and inspected and admired now and then in years to come.
It would make one feel warm and good all over again. A glad-to-be-alive day.
The sun was...
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Rnli National Lottery
PAULA FUDGE, Commonwealth gold medalist and holder of the women's 5,000 metres world record, visited Poole headquarters on Friday October 30 to draw the RNLI fifteenth national lottery. Paula gained her record in Norway in 1981, and was...
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