LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alice and Ella
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 1.45 p.m. on 4th July, 1965, a message was received that a fishing boat had broken down near Canvey Island, and at 2.10 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched. There was a moderate...
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BOY FELL OVER CLIFFS Whitby, Yorkshire. At 6.20 p.m. on igth October, 1965, the honorary secretary was told that a boy had been reported as having fallen over the cliffs at Ravenscar. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 6.40 in a...
Quinquereme (1)
SECOND CALL TO YACHT At 7 p.m. on 8th May, 1964, the honorary secretary was informed that the yacht Quinquereme had broken away from her moorings and was adrift in the middle of the straits—a potential danger to shipping. As the two local...
Stations Closed.
The Dover station was temporarily closed at the beginning of October, 1940, as the arrangements of the Admiralty made a life-boat station there unnecessary. The life-boat was taken over by the Admiralty a month later to be used in rescuing...
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Ellen Beatrice
At half an hour after mid- night on the 14th November, in reply to signals of distress shown from the schooner Ellen Beatrice, of Aberystwith, bound from Swansea to Dover, the Life-boat Wolver- hampt&n launched from its station, and...
Minnie Coles
On the 14th January, at 5.30 A.M., during a moderate breeze from the N.N.E., with snow squalls, the Bradford Life-boat and harbour steam-tug Vulcan, went out in response to signals of distress, and brought the schooner Minnie Coles, of...
Grasshopper
At about 10 A.M., on the 7th March, a message from Boarhills reported that a vessel was in a dangerous position about 4 miles east of St. Andrew's. The wind had fallen, but a very heavy sea was still running. The Ladies' Own...
Atlantic
Salcombe, Devon. — At 9.20 in the morning, on the 17th of April, 1950, the Greystones coastguard reported that a motor fishing boat seemed to be in difficulties three and a half miles west of Bolt Head. At 10.9 the life- boat Samuel and...
Rudderman
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—About 1.30 early on the morning of the 17th of Novem- ber, 1952, the tanker Rudderman, of London, wirelessed that her chief engineer had a badly poisoned arm and asked for a boat to land him. The weather was too bad for a...
Winifred Rose
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 9.54 on the morning of the 15th of September, 1953, the Gorleston coastguard rang up to say that the motor cruiser Winifred Rose, of South Shields, had broken down a mile south-south-east of the pier...