LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MARCH Launches 87. Lives rescued 109.

MARCH 1ST. - WELLS, NORFOLK. At 12.55 P.M. the coastguard reported a ship’s boat adrift about two miles N.N.W. of their lookout. A moderate easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate...

Sheringham and Wells, Norfolk.—At 6.20 on the evening of the 8th of December, 1954, a hotel porter told the Sheringham life-boat station that he had seen red rockets off Weybourne.

Four minutes later the Cromer coast- guard...

Competition Crossword COXSWAIN ARTHUR LiDDON of Dover, who has compiled this crossword puzzle, is kindly giving as a prize for the first correct solution to be opened a colour enlargement of Dover's 44' Waveney lifeboat Faithful...

Sennen Cove and St. Ives, Cornwall -At noon on 12th April, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Sennen Cove life-boat station that the owner of the exhibition galleon Hispaniola had expressed concern for the safety of...

Lifeboatmen transferred to Belgian yacht in gale and heavy seas A joint service by Southwold's Atlantic 21 class lifeboat Quiver and Lowestoft's Tyne Spirit of Lowestoft has won two lifeboatmen framed letters of thanks from the...

Today's lifeboatmen Coxswain Michael Grant of Selsey joined the crew in 1960 and served as second coxswain from 1972 to 1978, becoming the station's full-time coxswain on 1 November 1978.

He was awarded the Thanks...

AT a number of places round the coast wreaths were cast on the sea on llth November, in memory of men who lost their lives at sea during the war.

At Southwold, Suffolk, following the service in the parish church, the Mayor...

BLTTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.—At 3.40 A.M. on the 19th of January, a steamer, which subsequently proved to be the s.s. Jutland, of Newcastle, bound from Chatham to Blyth, in ballast, with a crew of thirteen men, was observed behind Seaton Sea Rocks...