LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Etna II
Humber, Yorkshire - At 6 p.m. on 5th August, 1969, the coastguard reported that a motor boat was on fire between the Bull lightvessel and Spurn point. The life-boat City of Bradford HI was launched at 6.12.
The tide was...
Kerwick
Dunmore East, Co. Waterfori-At 11.20 p.m. on 6th December, 1969, the honorary secretary was told that flares had been sighted off Brownsford head. The life-boat Annie Blanche Smith slipped her moorings at 11.45. There was a south by westerly...
Light-Vessel No. 85
JANUARY 12TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At about 4.30 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that Light-vessel No. 85 was being attacked by enemy aeroplanes. The No. 1 Cromer motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 4.50 P.M...
Two American Fortress Aeroplanes
MARCH 24TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. About 8.33 in the morning, information was received from the naval base at Harwich, through the coastguard, that two American Fortress aeroplanes were down near the Pye Sands. A light west-southwest...
Basil George
MAY 5TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 3.20 in the afternoon the naval control reported the naval boat B a s i l George, with two men on board, ashore half a mile east of the pier, and asked that the life-boat should be launched. A very...
Rian, of Groningen and The Dutch Minesweeper Jan Van Gelder
FEBRUARY 3RD. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 2.45 in the morning the coastguard reported vessels in collision three miles east-by-north of Queen’s Pier. The motor life-boat Lady Harrison was launched at 3.40. The south-westerly wind was moderate,...
The S.S. Fulham II
FEBRUARY 19TH - TYNEMOUTH , NORTHUMBERLAND. At 11.30 A.M. the life-boat station received a telephone call from the Port War Signal Station that a vessel had been mined east of the North Pier, and the motor life-boat John Pyemont was launched...
A Naval Patrol Drifter (1)
NOVEMBER 21ST. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At about 3.55 P.M. information was received from the naval base at Brightling sea that a ship had blown up. A light westerly wind was blowing, with a slight swell. The motor life-boat Edward Z.<...
Girl Pat
MAY 4TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO. DUBLIN. At nine o’clock at night a lifeboatman saw a small boat in difficulties about one mile north-east of the east pier lighthouse.
The honorary secretary of the life-boat station was...
Isabella
At 2.15 in the afternoon on Wednesday the 20th February, distress signals were hoisted on a schooner in the bay, which was riding heavily and dragging her anchors.
There was a N.N.W. gale blowing at the time and a rough sea...