LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rock City
ALDBOROUGH.—Signal guns having been fired from the Shipwash Sands on the 8th April during a strong N.N.W. wind, increasing to a gate, very squally weather and a heavy sea, the Life-boat George Hounsfidd was promptly launched at 12.30 P.M....
A Rowing Boat (5)
SEPT. 18TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. A rowing boat with a boy and girl on board had been reported as missing and the life-boat put out, but was recalled as the boat had been found. - Rewards, £10 5s..
H.M. Destroyer Javelin
OCT. 22ND. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
Information had been received through the coastguard from the senior naval officer atNewcastle that there had been a collision off Marske, one of the vessels being H.M. Destroyer Javelin. The...
Two Canoes
At 1.5 P.M. on the 21st June the coxswain was told by the coastguard that two canoes were in difficulties in Kessingland Bay, about two and a half miles S.S.W. of the south pier. A moderate southerly gale was blowing with a heavy sea. The...
A Dinghy (1)
Dungeness, Kent. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 12th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a rubber dinghy was being blown out to sea off Littlestone. At 1.30 the life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched in a rough...
Index to Advertisers
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Category: Index
Dragon
DUNGENESS.—The Coxswain of the Life-boat B.A.O.B., being informed by the Coastguard on the morning of the 8th January that a steamer was stranded, the crew were summoned and at 5.30 the * Life-boat was launched.
The wind...
Little Teal
BERWICK-ON-TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND.
—A small sailing yacht, the Little Teal, of Berwick, was observed during the afternoon on the 1st April try ing to keep in shore, but the westerly wind was too heavy for her to carry any...
A Sunderland Aircraft
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 9.35 on the morning of the 4th of June, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a Sunderland aircraft of the Royal Air Force had crashed when landing half a mile south-east of the life-boathouse.
Ten...
Rye Harbour's Lifeboat House
Rve Harbour's lifeboat house sits atop a substantial base and piles extending deep imo the sedimentary mud on the west bank of the fiver Rother. The station operates an Atlantic 75. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs