LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The 39Ft Constanze Sinking By the Bow,
The 39ft Constanze sinking by the bow, broaches heavily under tow in a Force 6 to 7 wind. Despite various attempts the crew of the Dover lifeboat could not prevent her sinking just two miles away from Dover. The crew of six German yachtsmen... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Yacht
Open day drama Hoylake's open day was interrupted when the lifeboat was called out.
Visitors on a guided lour of the Lady of Hilbre were asked to evacuate quickly so she could rush to the aid of a troubled yacht. The...
An Aeroplane (78)
AUGUST 11TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. The R.A.F.
reported a Blenheim aircraft down in the sea three miles off the coast between Yarmouth and Lowestoft, but the life-boats found...
An Aeroplane (41)
DECEMBER 12TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found.
During the search a life-boatman was put on board one of two rescue launches, which were also searching,...
Harbour Search
Crosshaven’s B class lifeboat Miss Betty is pictured searching for a man in Cork harbour after a car fell off the crossriver ferry on 8 March.
The driver of the car was recovered immediately, and the lifeboat launched to...
Category: Articles
Emergency Evacuation
Margate’s all-weather lifeboat, the sturdy 12m Mersey class Leonard Kent, was dwarfed by the vessel to which she was called out on 2 December.
A Russian cargo ship was anchored, waiting for better weather to continue her...
Category: Articles
New Food for Life-Boats
All life-boats carry chocolate, biscuits and rum, as emergency rations. The life-boats with cabins, which may have long distances to travel, also carry corned-beef.
To their rations have now been added coeoa-milk and oxtail...
Category: Articles
The Admiralty Trawler Warwick Deeping
OCTOBER 11TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. The Admiralty trawler Warwick Deeping had sunk as a result of enemy action, but her crew of twenty-fire were rescued by two men in a motor boat and the life-boat was recalled by wireless.- Rewards,...
A Dinghy and Two Yachts
RESCUES FROM THREE YACHTS IN TURN Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and Margate, Kent. At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 26th August, 1962, the coastguard ininformed the honorary secretary at Southend-on-Sea that a small sailing dinghy had capsized near...
The Happy Harry
New Brighton, Cheshire.—On the 16th of September, 1950, the New Brighton No. 2 life-boat rescued the crew of four of the Happy Harry of Arklow.—Re- wards, to Acting-coxswain William Stephen Jones, a clasp to the bronze medal for gallantry...