LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Obituaries
Fay Atkinson - Appledore guild President Joe Ball - Appledore lifeboat station President Richard (David) Buckle - former Swanage lifeboat station Crew Member, Shore Helper and Press Officer John Burton MBE - former Hastings branch Chairman...
Category: Obituaries
FRANCE
The Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer helped 4,500 people during the summer of 1974 and saved from certain death 650.
The French lifeboat service is much occupied with the modernisation of its fleet. St Tropez lifeboat,...
Category: Articles
Julia
BROADSTAIRS.—The Life-boat Frances Forbes Barton was launched at 3 P.M. on the 12th January in a very rough sea, the wind blowing a whole gale from W.S.W.
veering to N.N.W., with rain squalls, a signal of distress being...
Lady Daphne
The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...
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Aith, Shetlands.—14th January. During the evening the coastguard at Lerwick telephoned that two rockets had been seen north of the Vee Skerries.
A moderate N.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and showers of snow....
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Alth, Shetlands. — At ten in the morning of the 10th of March, 1952, a doctor at Walls asked if the life-boat would take him to the island of Foula where a woman was seriously ill. The weather was too bad for an ordinary boat to put out. The...
Melvin
Aith, Shetlands - At 9.10 p.m. on ist May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Foula mailboat had been reported overdue. She was last seen six miles east-south-east of Foula, apparently drifting. The life-boat John...
The S.S. Crawford Castle
The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...
The Christmas Gales. Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-Boat's Four Launches In One Day
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy gales on Christmas night and the following day. During the seven days of the Christmas week, from 21st December to 27th December,...
Category: Services
Pacific (1)
MARCH 26TH. - PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. At 7.20 in the morning a message was received at Penlee from the coastguard that a vessel 4 1/2 miles south-west of The Lizard needed help. A light north-east wind was blowing. The sea was...