LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gifts from Crews
THE Institution has received the follow- ing gifts from its Crews.
On 29th July, 1925, the Clacton-on- Sea Motor Life-boat saved the schooner Walkyrie, of Lannion, which had stranded on the N.E. Long Sands when bound from...
Category: Donations
Coxswain William Fleming, G.C.
WILLIAM FLEMING, former coxswain of the Gorleston life-boat, died on the 30th of September, 1954, at the age of 89.
He was born in 1865 and first served as a member of the Gorleston crew before he was twenty. He became...
Category: Obituaries
Lifeboat Services
INJURED SEAMAN LANDED IN SEVERE GALE AND COMPLETE DARKNESS Force 9 gale and snow squalls hinder Atlantic 21 rescue in The WashHelmsman Alan Clarke of Hunstanton lifeboat has been awarded a bar to his Bronze medal for a service in the...
Category: Services
Wave Crest
Coxswain John Swan of the Lowestoft Life-boat Kentwell was called out by the beach- men at 4.30 P.M. on the 15th February and informed that a vessel was aground at the entrance to the harbour. The Life-boat was launched without loss of time,...
Lifeboat Services
South East Division Speedboat AT 1734 on Bank Holiday Monday, August 1986, the crews of Sheerness' 44ft Waveney and 16ft D class inflatable lifeboats were alerted by the duty officer at the Medway Port Office, following reports from...
Category: Services
Dirk II
Margate, Kent.—At 6.25 in the even- ing of the 1st of June, 1952, the coast- guard telephoned that a yacht needed help four miles to the north of the North-East Spit Buoy, about ten miles north of North Foreland, and at 6.35 the life-boat...
Sandefjord
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 9.43 on the night of the 30th of July, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a tanker had gone aground near the North Goodwin Buoy, and at 9.49 the life- boat Prudential left her moorings.
The sea was...
Andaman and Fortune
Dover, and Walmer, Kent.—At 2.55 early on the morning of the 24th of May, 1953, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that the motor vessel Andaman.
of Gothenburg, had collided with the Panamanian steamer Fortune three...
Thallata
Margate, Kent. — At 2.35 in the afternoon of the 26th of September, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a barge was ashore on the outer edge of the Margate Sands and at three o'clock the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. XI...
Albatross
Margate, Kent.—At 6.35 on the even- ing of the 9th of July, 1957, the coast- guard telephoned that a cabin cruiser was ashore on the north-west corner | of Margate sands and that she had a 1 heavy list to port. At 6.43 the life- : boat North...