LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Speed Boat
Criccieth, Caernarvonshire - At 11.25 a.m. on 2yth June, 1966, a speedboat was reported adrift in the bay. The conditions were too rough for a small shore-based craft to proceed. The lifeboat Robert Lindsay was launched at 11.35 a.m. in a...
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DID NOT REVIVE At 4.15 p.m. on 3rd September, 1964, a nurse on Inishmaan Island reported that a doctor was needed to attend to a young girl who had been rescued from the sea. It was just after high water with a smooth sea and moderate...
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Brighton and Shoreham Harbour: Early in the evening of September 15, 1983, when a force 8 gale, gusting to strong gale, force 9, was blowing from the south west and the sea was very rough, a swimmer was reported in difficulties between...
Pam
FEB. 26TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. At 12.30 P.M. the coastguard reported that a small boat was in distress about half a mile south-east of Newhaven. A light W.S.W.
wind was blowing and the sea was choppy.
The...
The S.S. Copeland
OCT. 23RD. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 1.45 P.M. the signal station reported that a vessel was ashore on the Shoebury Sands. The weather was calm, and the sea smooth. At 2 P.M. the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3)...
H.M. Destroyer Javelin
OCT. 22ND. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
Information had been received through the coastguard from the senior naval officer atNewcastle that there had been a collision off Marske, one of the vessels being H.M. Destroyer Javelin. The...
A Spitfire Aeroplane (4)
MAY 3RD. - BLACKPOOL, AND FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea six miles west of Blackpool. The Blackpool life-boat could not launch at once as the tractor was engaged in an attempt to salve another...
Windsor Lad
DECEMBER 13TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
The district inspector was at the station preparing to take the life-boat out for exercise, when at 2.40 in the afternoon the coastguard reported the local fishing coble Windsor Lad in...
Lily, of Scarborough
AUGUST 28TH - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 8.30 in the morning the coastguard reported that a fishing coble was making distress signals a mile east of Castle Hill. An easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Herbert Joy...
The S.S. Harley
FEBRUARY 5TH. - CROMARTY. At 6.25 A.M. the Burghead coastguard reported distress signals from a vessel aground one mile west of Findhorn, and the motor life-boat James Macfee was launched at 6.45 A.M. A moderate S.W. wind was blowing, with a...