LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dorothy Melinda
Hastings, Sussex. At 3.12 on the morning of the 16th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that red flares had been observed between four and five miles south-east of Fairlight. At 3.35, when the life-boat Lucy Lavers,...
Silver Spray
Seahani, Co. Durham. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 25th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small fishing boat Silver Spray had broken down with engine trouble. The life-boat George Elmy was...
Shamrock
NEWHAVEN-BOUND Life-boat O.N. 873 on passage. At 5.25 p.m. on 3ist July, 1964, while the life-boat George Elmy was on her way from Dover to Newhaven in a moderate sea and a fresh westerly breeze, someone was seen waving from a small motor...
None (3)
A similar course of events took place in Cumbria on 7 February 1996, when St Bees lifeboat was used to bring in food after supplies ran out. Crew members ferried bread, milk (and nappies!) to St.
Bees villagers - other...
An Aeroplane (12)
JULY 17TH. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A message had been received from the coasttake guard that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea between Walton pier and Gunfleet Lighthouse and that a man had come down from it by...
An Aeroplane (28)
JULY 21ST. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
During the evening of the 20th the life-boat crew were assembled as an aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the call was cancelled. Later flashes were reported and the...
Three Brothers, of Sunderland
DECEMBER 29TH. - SEAHAM, DURHAM.
About three in the afternoon a motor fishing coble was seen to be in distress to the southeast of Seaham, and at 3.43 the motor life-boat Elizabeth Wills Allen was launched, in a moderate...
Shamrock, of Wick
OCTOBER 27TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 10.38 at night the coastguard reported that flashes from a torch and a white flare had been seen six hundred yards north of South Head. A strong north-north-west breeze was blowing,...
Don’t Know
NOVEMBER 12TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 2.25 in the afternoon the coastguard reported a fishing boat making distress signals two miles south-east of the coastguard station. A gentle south-westerly breeze was blowing, and...
A Piledriver
JULY 5TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 7.20 P .M. the coastguard reported two men were in danger on a-piledriver at Milford-on-Sea. A moderatesqually S.S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough breaking sea. The motor life-boat S.G.E. was...