LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Torbay, Devon - At 10.51 p.m. on ist August, 1966, a boy was reported to have fallen over the cliff at Sharkham point.
At 11.15 tne life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent left her moorings with a boarding boat in tow. There...
Argonaut
At 12.55 a.m. on igth September, 1966, the motor fishing vessel Argonaut of Kirkaldy, was reported ashore on the Cairns of Coll after a May-day call. The life-boat E. M. M. Colby Cubbin was launched at 1.15 in a light southerly wind and a...
Brighton and Shoreham Harbour:
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... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sualidaz
First rescue by FAB 3 prototype while on trials The prototype of the new Fast Afloat Boat 3 (see page 90 of this issue) carried out her first service on 29 May while returning from Salcombe to Weymouth, where she was based for some days for...
Three Yachts
Vellum service LAST QUARTER'S issue of THE LIFEBOAT reported a service on May 25, 1986 by Ramsey lifeboat to three yachts in trouble at the end of Isle of Man's round the island race. The three yachts were towed one after the other...
Jean Edmonds
FEB. 22ND. - LERWICK, SHETLAND.
At 10.45 A.M. a message was received from a trawler agent and the coastguard that the trawler Jean Edmonds, of Aberdeen, had broken down with boiler trouble, and had asked for the life-boat....
The S.S. Mayflower
APRIL 22ND. - HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.
At 5.30 A.M. the coastguard reported that the S.S. Mayflower, of Liverpool, loaded with stone, on passage from Penmaenmawr, North Wales, to Liverpool, had gone aground on East Hoyle Bank at...
Olive (1)
OCT. 27TH - TORBAY, DEVONSHIRE.
It was reported to the senior naval officer, Weymouth, by an observer on a R.A.F.
aeroplane, engaged on reconnaisance over West Bay, that a motor boat was drifting about ten...
A Wellington Bombing Aeroplane (1)
JULY 26TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At about 2.42 in the morning the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea about a mile north of Cromer, and the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 3 A.M.. A moderate...
Two Salvage Lighters
NOVEMBER 14TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. At 2.50 in the afternoon, the Admiralty salvage officer at Bangor reported, through the coastguard, that two salvage lighters, with crews on board, were drifting ashore in Belfast...