LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy
APRIL 20TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A report had been received that some airmen were in a dinghy, but the lifeboat and her motor boarding boat, which both went out, found some soldiers fishing from a dinghy. - Rewards, £13 12s..<...
A Drifter
OCT. 26TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.
A drifter had been reported as flying distress signals, but she got in to the shelter of Douglas Bay unaided. The life-boat was out for nearly five hours in a gale with a heavy sea. -...
‘ THEY WERE UTTERLY FROZEN’
When three people found themselves clinging to the bow of a sinking sailboat in the Dee Estuary, their hopes lay in the skill of a lifeboat crew – and no small amount of luck
On 22 February...
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Victorian photographer’s art of glass
In a nod to his craft’s Victorian heritage, one Newcastle-based photographer is visiting every lifeboat station with his 110-year-old camera and glass plate technology.
Using a former NHS ambulance as a mobile darkroom,...
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A Steamer
On the evening of the 31st December, 1931, prolonged blasts on a steamer's whistle were heard. There was fog and it was assumed that a vessel had run aground, either on the Smethwick Sands or under the South Cliffs. The No. 2 Pulling and...
A Skiff
19th July.
A skiff had capsized, but the occupants got ashore without help.—Rewards, £8 15s..
Vellums Accorded to Three Scotsmen
AT 7.15 on the evening of the 12th of June, 1960, the police at Bo'ness learnt that a boat had capsized two hundred yards east of the Hen and Chickens buoy off Culross in the Firth of Forth. There was no boat available in Bo'ness...
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A Boat
A message was received from the Chief Coastguard on the night of 10th May that he and his assistant had seen about one and a half miles S.E. of Hartlepool Heugh what appeared to be a ball of fire. He took it to be signals from a boat in...
A Trawler
31st October.
A trawler's boat was being blown out to sea, but a trawler towed her to safety.—- Rewards, £7 11*..
Kenneth William and Mor-Nita
Eleven hour escort TWO COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSELS, Kenneth William of Brancaster and Mor- Nita of Wells were at sea off Wells on the morning of Friday November 21, 1986 in a north-easterly storm force 10 and in very rough and heavy seas.<...