LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Canoe (2)
Hythe, Kent.—18th August, 1939.
It had been reported that a canoe was being carried away by the wind and tide, but the life-boat could find nothing, and it was learnt later that the canoe had come safely ashore.— Rewards,...
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The Humber, Yorkshire. — 23rd October, 1939. A message had been received that a vessel had been torpedoed, and the explosion had been heard, but nothing could be found and it was assumed that the wrecked vessel's crew had been rescued by...
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Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, and Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—17th August. Four men had been cut off by the tide while fish- ing. Two got ashore but the others were drowned before the Lifeboats arrived.
—Rewards, Ferryside,...
The French Cargo Steamer Commandant Charles Merie
FEBRUARY 4TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
The French cargo steamer Commandant Charles Merie had been mined six miles N.E. of Sunk Light-vessel, but her crew of twenty-nine were picked up by a Dutch motor vessel. - Rewards,...
A British Warwick Aeroplane (1)
NOVEMBER 17TH. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
A British Warwick aeroplane had made a forced landing on the sea, but while the life-boat was searching she learned, by wireless, that the crew had been rescued.- Rewards, £20 0s....
A Steam Trawler (1)
FEBRUARY 20TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
A steam trawler had been attacked by enemy aircraft several miles off the Cromer Knoll Lightship, but she beat them off and reached port without help. - Rewards, £41 9s. 6d.
A Trawler (2)
MCH. 6TH. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
A trawler was in distress and her crew had landed on the uninhabited island of Hascosay, but they were taken off by another trawler.- Rewards, £13 6s. 6d..
Coxswain/Mechanic Richard Hawkins of Great Yarmouth
Coxswain/Mechanic Richard Hawkins of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston first joined Dover lifeboat crew in 1959, becoming second assistant mechanic from 1974 to 1976 when he was appointed coxswain at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston. He was awarded a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Abyssinia
On the following day the Kingsdowne Life-boat put off while it was blowing strongly from the S.W., and remained for some time alongside the ship Abyssinia, which had gone on the Goodwin Sands, but which was got off the Sands with the aid of...
A Steamer (3)
Anstruther, Fifeshire— 16th December.
A steamer had grounded in West Bay, Elie, but the life-boat found the crew being rescued by the coastguard's lifesaving apparatus.—Rewards, £14 Os. 6d..