LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wilma (1)
The signals of distress from the Newarp Light-vessel on the 26th January were also seen at Caister, and as they continued the No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden was launched. When crossing the Scroby Sands signals of distress were observed about...
Harriet
BLACKPOOL.—At about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 13th April, while the wind was blowing strongly from the N.N.W. and a heavy sea was running, the fishing-smack Harriet, of Marshside, was observed in difficulties off...
None (10)
Aith, Shetland—22nd February. Early in the morning the telephone service having failed, the volunteer-in-charge of the Board of Trade rocket lifesaving apparatus at Walls travelled ten miles to bring news from Lerwick that flares had been...
Southern Sun
Girvan, Ayrshire.—At 9.40 on the night of the 29th of June, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that a vessel had broken down and was drifting five miles north-east of Ailsa Craig. The life-boat Frank and William Oates was launched...
Avec Dieu
St. Helier, Jersey. At 6.55 on the evening of the 24th of September, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message that a small boat appeared to be in difficulties half a mile south of Icho tower. The life-boat Elizabeth Rippon put out at...
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AUG. 10TH. - MARGATE, KENT. Just after midnight the officer in charge of troops on the jetty informed the coxswain that he could hear calls for help from the water.
The night was very dark. An air raid was in progress and...
None (7)
Lerwick, Shetlands.—At midnight of February 27th, 1947, a doctor tele- phoned that he was needed for an urgent maternity case at Quarff, and snow prevented him going by road. He asked for the life-boat's help. The motor life-boat Lady...
Feature Lifeboats on the Thames
On 20 August 1989 the pleasure cruiser Marchioness and dredger Bowbelle collided on London's River Thames beneath Southwark Bridge. The accident, which cost the lives of 51 people, led to demands for a fundamental review of emergency...
Category: Articles
The Ketches Flower of Essex, Enterprise, Lord Beresford and Eustace
MARGATE.—At 8.30 A.M. on the 29th November, a message was received at Margate from the Coastguard at Epple Bay, stating that a barge was ashore half a mile east of that place; at the same time the Coastguard at Birchington reported a barge,...
Letters
A voluntary service In NEWS POINT on page 41 of your autumn 1986 issue, you state that a majority of those questioned in a recent public opinion survey, believe that the Government should fund the lifeboat service, if not entirely, at least...
Category: Correspondence