LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Caroline in real life
Mum, wife, broadcaster and self-styled nosey parker Caroline Quentin explains how her new series brought her up close and personal with lifeboating
‘Oh do shut up darlings!’ calls Caroline...
Category: Articles
Crab Boats
Sheringham, Norfolk - At 2.6 p.m.
on 8th April, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that four Sheringham crab boats were at sea in a very thick fog and might have difficulty in finding the passage back to the...
Fishing Boats
TEIGNMOUTH.—On the 14th October, at about 4.45 P.M., three fishing-boatswere seen to be making "_for the harbour.
A strong S.W. wind was blowing at the time, and a heavy sea was breaking on the bar, and as the water...
The S.S. Glengoil
MARGATE.—Signals having been shown by the lightships, and by a vessel ashore on the Girdler Sand during a strong S.W.
wind and a moderate sea on the 3rd November, the Quiver, No. 1, Life-boat was launched at about 7.30 P.M....
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Hughie Green's Autograph Session
It was a cold and blustery August bank holiday when the annual life-boat flag day was held in Rhyl this year. A further handicap was the lateness of the bank holiday - fewer people were in the town. The outlook for fund raising was poor,...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (1)
Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—At about 10.15 on the night of the 10th of June, 1948, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned the Port St. Mary, Port Erin, and Douglas life- boat stations that an aeroplane, with eight...
When the Pilot of a Lightning Jet Aircraft from Leuchars Had to Abandon His Aircraft on 4Th March, 1970, Life-Boats from Broughty Ferry and Anstruther Searched for Him In Darkness.
When the pilot of a Lightning jet aircraft from Leuchars had to abandon his aircraft on 4th March, 1970, life-boats from Broughty Ferry and Anstruther searched for him in darkness. The body of the pilot was finally found by the Broughty crew... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ran I
Drifting in gale A DUTCH YACHT, the 42ft Ran I, reported at 2238 on Thursday June 4, 1981, that she was in difficulties in the vicinity of Shipwash Lightvessel; her engine had broken down and she was drifting in gale force winds. She had...
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