LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Boat
Plymouth, South Devon. At 1.5 a.m. on 3ist May, 1965, the coastguard informed the life-boat's motor mechanic that a small motor boat about two miles off the Mewstone appeared to be making no progress. There was a fresh northerly breeze...
A Power Boat
Donaghadee, Co. Down - At 11.16 p.m. on 27th July, 1967, a report was received that shouts had been heard from Perch rock. The life-boat Sir Samuel Kelly supped her moorings at 11.25 in a light north westerly breeze and a slightsea. The tide...
Sedulity
FEBRUARY 2ND. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 9.37 A.M. the Cromer coastguard telephoned that a vessel, about one and a half miles north of Cromer, had reported that she had a man on board dangerously ill. The coastguard also...
H.M. Drifter Reed
NOVEMBER 7TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA (AT BRIGHTLINGSEA), ESSEX. During the afternoon news came that a vessel had been mined south of Holland Point. A light northerly wind was blowing, and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Edward Z....
French and Belgian Life-Boats In the British Fleet.
A French life-boat, which escaped from France at the end of June 1940 and arrived at an English port, with her coxswain, motor mechanic and French refugees on board, has been taken over by the Institution for the war.
She...
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Fishing Boats
JAN. 2ND. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
Early in the morning a number of fishing boats went to sea. At about 8.30 A.M. a N.E. gale sprang up and the sea became rough, broken and dangerous between the pier ends and the Rock Buoy. At...
Resolute
JANUARY 28TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 11.42 A.M. the coastguard reported that a sailing barge had struck a mine to the S. by E., three quarters of a mile from Holland look-out hut, and had blown up. A light S.W. breeze was blowing...
An Aeroplane (28)
AUGUST 11TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 5.45 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane was down half a mile from the coastguard station, and that the crew had baled out. She was a Halifax.
Twenty-five minutes...
The S.S. Suffolk Coast
OCTOBER 28TH - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 7 P .M. t h e coxswain was asked by the coastguard to assemble the crew, and at 7.35 P.M. the motor life-boat Westmorland was launched, with instructions to go to a position two and a half miles...
Star of Victory (1)
OCT. 29TH . - WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. The Aberdeen trawler Star of Victory had stranded near Keiss on the 15th October, 1939, and the Wick life-boat City of Edinburgh helped her on that day and rescued her crew of ten on the following day.<...