LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sea Witch
FLARES SEEN Margate, Kent. At 12.6 a.m. on 6th July, 1965, a small vessel was reported to be burning a distress flare close to the shore in Botany Bay. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. u) was launched at 12.19 m a fresh...
New Venture
Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 5 p.m.
on 2ist June, 1967, information was given that a motor boat with five people on board was stranded on the Ridge. The life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched at 5.15...
None (1)
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 10.42 on the morning of the 10th of October, 1953, a message was received from Bull Fort in the River Humber that a work- man had fallen and broken his ribs.
No other boat was available to take him...
Rescue Party Rescued
Rescue party rescued Weymouth's Arun class lifeboat Tony Vandervell, a naval helicopter and the destroyer HMS Edinburgh were all involved in an incident where three fishermen were airlifted to safety from their sinking trawler Dunlin on... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Progress
On the morning of the 23rd February the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched for her monthly engine trials, in bad weather. The local motor fishing boat Progress also put out, long-line fishing. By 10.20 A.M. a heavy gale was...
Saunterer, of Blyth
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire. — During the afternoon of the 5th August the coastguard reported that a yacht was ashore on Tyne sands, three miles west of Dunbar. She was the sailing yacht Saunterer, of Blyth, cruising in the Firth of Forth and...
A R.A.F. Air Sea Rescue Launch
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 6.46 on the evening of the 8th of October, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that a boat had reported that she was on the Red Sands and needed help. At 6.55 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 was...
Ann of Lonan
Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 12.40 in the early morning of the 4th of February, 1950, the coastguard reported that dis- tress flares were being burned off Douglas Bay. At one o'clock the life- boat Millie Walton was launched in a heavy sea...
Lady Gay
flfracombe, Devon.—At 12.45 in the afternoon, on the 13th of May, 1951,the coastguard telephoned that Bull Point lighthouse reported a motor yacht burning a red flare off Brandy Cove. At 1.0 the life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was...
A Sailing Dinghy (5)
Runswick, Yorkshire. At 12.18 p.m.
on 3rd October, 1965, a sailing dinghy was seen to capsize off Kettleness Point and it was thought there might be children on board. There was a light south-south-westerly breeze with a...