LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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Signals of distress having been shown by the Middle Light Vessel on the 16th February, the Life-boat Albert Edward was launched at 1.15 A.M., proceeded to the Lightship and was informed that a vessel was ashore on the Maplin...

RescUe Insight Here is just a handful of incidents from around the uK and Roi to give an insight into the thousands of lifeboat rescues carried out each year. see pages 20–27 for rescues marked and page 13 for a roundup of lifeguard activity...

SEPTEMBER 14TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.

An officer of H.M.S. Hastings asked the honorary secretary of the life-boat station if the life-boat could be used to take out thirty seamen, who had been stranded ashore. The warship was...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At about 9.9 P.M. on the 1st June, 1938, the Cliff End coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in distress at the mouth of Lymington River. She was the auxiliary cutter yacht Monie, of Southampton, bound with a crew...

SEPTEMBER 29TH. - WALMER, KENT.

At 5.59 in the evening the Deal coastguard reported that the S.S. Fort Vermillion, of London, of over 7,000 tons, bound to Middlesbrough from Tangiers, was aground on the Goodwin Sands south...

JUNE 21ST. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.

At 7.30 in the morning a message was received from the Kirkwall coastguard that a vessel was ashore on the Little Skerry. A moderate south-east wind was blowing, with a moderate sea and dense...

DURING March life-boats went out on service 52 times and rescued 48 lives.

TO THE HELP OF BARGES IN THE THAMES Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.10 in the morning of the 1st of March, 1949, the look-out at Warden Point reported...