LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Examination Vessel Thistle
MAY 8TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 8.40 in the morning the naval base telephoned, through the coastguard, that a heavy explosion had occurred where the examination vessel Thistle had last been seen, and the motor life-boat...
The Sailing Barge Davenport
Early on the morning of the 18th December the coastguard warned the coxswain that a flare had been seen to the E.N.E. The coxswain went to the look out, and after some time saw a red flare. A S.E., veering to S., gale was blowing, with a...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Thomas William Read, of Rams- gate, who retired last year. He was appointed second coxswain about 1915, when the station was administered by the Board of Trade, and in 1924, two years after the...
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The "Gorden Warren."
A motor life-boat of the 32-feet surf type which replaced the tubular life-boat at Rhyl in 1939.. - View image in PDF
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The South Goodwin Lightvessel
On the night of the 26th-27th November, 1954, the South Goodwin lightvessel broke adrift in a gale and at daylight was found to be lying on her beam ends. The Dover, Ramsgate and Walmer life-boats were all launch- ed, but the sole survivor...
The Turbocraft Doughty
Walmer, Kent. At 5.8 on the after- noon of the 20th of August, 1960, flares and rockets were spotted over the Good- win Sands near the wreck of the N.E.
Victory by the life-boat mechanic and others on the sea front. A...
The Destroyer Scharnhorst
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 7.5 on the evening of the 24th of January, 1961, the St. Peter Port signal station informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the island of Brechon that a vessel to the north-west of...
The Pinnace, Pinnace
Cromer, Norfolk - At 5.27 p.m. on 2nd March, 1968, the coxswain and motor mechanic saw distress flares from a small vessel two miles north west of the life-boathouse. The lifeboat Ruby and Arthur Reed was launched at 5.35 in a light north...
The Fishing Boat
Plymouth, Devon - At 4.22 p.m. on 6th April, 1969, the coastguardinformed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat, with a crew of five on board, had broken down in Whitsand bay. At 4.40 the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse slipped...
The Barrels Lightvessel
Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 9.30 a.m.
on i6th May, 1965, the Irish Lights Office asked the honorary secretary for the use of the life-boat to take a sick man off the Barrels lightvessel. There was a light southerly breeze and...