LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Essex County Council has arranged for the extraordinary happenings at the end of January and the beginning of February, 1953, when large parts of the east coast were flooded, to be recorded in a splendidly produced and well illustrated...

SCABBOBOTJGH.—During a severe storm on the 28th October, at about 9.30 A.M., the brig Mary, of South Shields, in trying to make the harbour, was driven by the wind and heavy sea on the shore. The Life-boat Lady Leigh was launched, and, after...

NOVEMBER 8TH. - GALWAY BAY. At 9.5 at night the life-boat coxswain heard a ship’s siren continually sounding, in the direction of Straw Island, and then saw distress rockets. A north-westerly breeze was blowing, but the sea was calm. The...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 3rd of December, 1952, the fast patrol boat Havoernen, of the Royal Danish Navy, with a crew of twenty-four, which was taking part in exercises with British coastal...

JUNE 15TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 8.15 in the morning the Great Yarmouth coastguard reported a vessel aground two and a half miles east of Corton. A light north-west breeze was blowing, with a moderate...

Breezy conditions lead to six calls in one day for Plymouth's Arun Plymouth's Arun class lifeboat City of Plymouth was kept extremely busy on 9 August 1994 when she received no less than six calls - launching first at 0048 and...

BROADSTAIRS.—On the 2nd March, in reply to signal guns from the Gull Light- ship the Samuel Morrison Collins Life-boat proceeded to the Goodwin Sands and found the three-masted schooner Ocean Queen, of Plymouth, ashore on the E. part of the...

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