LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dryburgh
Humber, Yorkshire - At 9.30 a.m.
on 5th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the superintendent coxswain that there was a seriously sick seaman on board the m.v. Dryburgh who required medical attention. There was a light...
Guiding Star
The schooner Guiding Star, of Runcorn, while bound to Fisherow with a cargo of salt, became windbound when at anchor in Scrabster Roads, and on the 12th November a whole N.N.E. gale sprang up. The vessel, being in an ex- posed position,...
Contents
PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 122 NOTES OF THE QUARTER 123 FOCUS ON DUNGENESS 125 NINE PEOPLE RESCUED FROM DUTCH MOTOR VESSEL 129 SECOND LIFE-BOAT MEDAL AWARDED FORTY-FIVE YEARS LATER .. . . 132 THE PRINCESS FLIES TO WALES ...
Category: Contents
Monica
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 11.15 on the night of the 7th of August, 1958, a message was received that a motor launch had broken down with engine trouble one mile west of Hook lighthouse. The life-boat Annie Blanche Smith put out at...
Ashfield & District Branch
Although there are onlv four members in Ashfield & District branch, a cheque was presented at a charity concert to celebrate the second £1,000 it had raised last year. The concert was held by the West Nottinghamshire School of Music... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Newhaven, we have a problem
6 November: A former astronaut got into difficulties when his eco-friendly schooner experienced fuel contamination in choppy conditions. Newhaven’s all-weather Severn class lifeboat was on scene within half an...
Category: Articles
Windermere
NEW EOMHET, KENT.—Distress signals having been shown by the barque Windermere, of Newcastle, bound from London for Eangoon, with a general cargo, during a moderate E.S.E. gale and a heavy sea, on the 17th of January, the crew of the Sandal...
Glebe
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 9.30 on the night of the 2nd of October, 1948, the local sailing club telephoned that the club secretary had gone out for a sail at 4 o'clock that afternoon in his yacht Glebe, but had not been seen since, and at...
Boy David
Life-boat 70-002 - Bristol Channel - At 1.35 p.m. on 7th May, 1967, a member of the crew of the life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie lying at anchor off Ilfracombe saw a red flare at the east end of Ilfracombe bay. There was a moderate westerly...
A Sailing Dinghy
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 4.12 on the afternoon of the 31st of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the hon- orary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized about a mile and a half off Chandlers Corner, Lancing, and that her crew were...