LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
T.I.D. 66
TUG TAKEN IN TOW TO HARBOUR Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
At 2.24 on the morning of the 12th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen about six miles east of Berwick,...
Guiding Light
GUIDING LIGHT GUIDED Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 5.10 p.m. on I5th October, 1963, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a fishing coble had been lying at anchor off Newbiggin Point for some time. On investigation it was noticed...
A Dinghy
Hastings, Sussex. On the afternoon of the 2nd July, 1961, while the Hastings regatta was taking place, news was received that a small dinghy belonging to the local angling association was lying some distance off shore and mak- ing no headway...
A Motor Boat
FAILED TO START At 9.15 p.m. on the following day, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat appeared to have broken down between the North pier and Wreck buoy, and the crew were waving for help. Two minutes...
H.M.S. Plover
Newcastle, Co. Down. H.M.S. Plover, visiting Newcastle, was due to sail early on the fth August, 1965, for the Clyde.
However, her commanding officer and forty ratings were stranded ashore as the liberty boat had grounded...
Yves Chantral, of St. Malo
Fowey, Cornwall - At 11.5 p.m. on 5th May, 1967, a report was received of a red flare two to three miles south of Gorran Haven. The life-boat Deneys Reitz slipped her moorings at 11.38 in a fresh south south westerly wind and a moderate sea....
Puffin, of Rochester
FEBRUARY 1ST. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 12.24 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen four miles south-west-by-west of Clacton pier, and half an hour later the motor lifeboat Edward Z. Dresden was...
God Bless the Life-Boat
WHEN in dark night of winter, fierce storms of wind and rain Howl round the cosy homestead, and lash the window pane, When over hill and tree top, we hear the tempest's roar, And hurricanes go sweeping on, from valley to the shore, When...
Category: Poetry
Lucy, of Sunderland
On the 11th De- cember, the brig Lucy, of Sunderland, was stranded on the shoal part of the Barber Sand. The beachmen put off in one of their yawls, and endeavoured to get the vessel off.
In this, however, they failed; and...
Thankful
FEBRUARY 8TH . - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. The fishing boat Thankful, of Scarborough, with four men on board, did not return during the afternoon, as expected, and another fishing boat went out to look for her, but failed to find her. At 6.30...