LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Government Sea Plane No.11
The Government Seaplane No. 11, whilst flying from Sheerness to Harwich on the 1st April dropped into the sea when about four miles W.S.W. of Clacfcon. Instructions were given for the Life-boat Albert Edward to proceed to her assistance, and...
Johanner, of Dantzie
Eight days afterwards, the same valu- able Life-boat proceeded to the assistance of the ship St. Johanner, of Dantzic, which had gone on the Middle Cross Sand, during a strong wind from the south.
They found the sea was...
Fifty Years of Life-Boat Design
THE building of new life-boats is necessarily delayed owing to war conditions.
I think it is, therefore, a suitable time to look back, and consider the way we have come to the present stage, then look forward, and consider...
Category: Articles
Clacton Second Coxswain Drowned.
Frank Castle, second coxswain of the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat for 19 years, lost his life in a gale in April. The life-boat had gone out to a barge, and the coxswain put Castle, the bowman and the assistant motor mechanic on board to help...
Category: Articles
The Southern African Branch.
The Southern African branch has completed its gift of £11,000 to provide a motor life-boat to be named "Field-Marshal and Mrs. Smuts"i and has sent £4,000 towards another £11,000 to provide a second life-boat,...
Category: Articles
Rescue of Four Swimmers
ON the afternoon of the 16th of July, 1957, a number of people, children as well as adults, were bathing in the sea off Barmouth beach. About three o'clock somebody raised the alarm that a swimmer was in difficulties, and a local...
Category: Services
Other Life-Boat Launches
In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 486, 502, 512, the following launches on service were made during the months June to August, 1968, inclusive: Aberdeen,...
Category: Services
The Fraserburgh Motor Fishing Boat Violet
FEBRUARY 19TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.
At 2.30 in the afternoon the life-boat coxswain saw a fishing boat heading for the harbour from the south. A gale was blowing from the north-west and the seas were very heavy on the...
The English and Welsh Grounds Lightvessel
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At five o'clock on the morning of the 30th of November, 1954, the Walton Bay signal station rang up to say that the English and Welsh Grounds lightvessel had parted one of her cables and needed help. Seven...
The French Fishing Trawler Jesu Maria Joseph
About 5 A.M.
on the 20th April the coxswain of the Life-boat Charles Dibdin observed a vessel on the Goodwin Sands, and shortly afterwards the Gull Light-vessel commenced to signal for assistance to be sent. The crew of the...