LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Two saved from trimaran Lowestoft - East Division The coxswain and second coxswain of Lowestoft's Tyne class lifeboat Spirit of Lowestoft have received letters of thanks from the Chairman of the RNLI following a service on 5 July 1989 in...

In the early morning of the 15th May the coble Robert and Mary put to sea for crab fishing. There was a northerly wind with considerable ground sea when the coble went off, but when the tide flowed the sea grew and rendered her return highly...

BURNHAM.—On the morning of the 3rd March the barque Nornen, having drifted up the Channel from Lundy Island and having lost all her sails, went Aground on the Burrows Hats, in a whole gale from W.N.W., a heavy sea and thick weather, with...

Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 4.50 in the afternoon of the llth of April, 1949, the yacht Tory, which was being taken by a crew of two to new owners in Liverpool, was seen making for the harbour. A fresh south-west wind was blowing, with a heavy...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 2.30 on the morning of the 13th of November, 1955. the coastguard rang up to say that a vessel burning white flares could be seen two miles to the east- ward. At 3.1 the no. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepzvorth was launched....

Newhaven, Sussex—At 6.15 on the evening of the 2nd of November, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel half a mile south of East Pier was making SOS signals on a lamp and siren. At 6.40 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was...

THREE FISHING VESSELS ESCORTED OVER BAR Whitby, Yorkshire. At 12.48 on the afternoon of the 12th December, 1962, the coxswain telephoned the honorary secretary to report that three local fishing vessels were still at sea although the weather...

Dungeness, Kent. At 9.20 on the morning of the 19th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a sailing dinghy was in diffi- culties two miles east of Dungeness Point. The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched at...