LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Melvin
Aith, Shetlands - At 9.10 p.m. on ist May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Foula mailboat had been reported overdue. She was last seen six miles east-south-east of Foula, apparently drifting. The life-boat John...
Rose
Buckie, Banffshire - At 2 p.m. on 4th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat had been reported to be drifting approximately four miles north-west of Buckie.
The life-boat Laura Moncur left her...
A Raft
At 12.25 p.m. on i2th June, 1966, the Skerries lighthouse keeper reported sighting a raft with 10 skin divers on board about one mile off Skerries. The life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched at 12.36 in a light south easterly...
None (3)
Cut off by tide SOME CHILDREN cut off by the tide on rocks near Seafield Colliery, Kirkcaldy, were reported to the honorary secretary of Kinghorn ILB station by HM Coastguard at 1430 on Thursday, July 29.
The rocks, an...
Lady Molly
GUIDED TO BOAT BY PARAFFIN FLARES Hastings, Sussex. At 8.35 on the evening of the 6th October, 1962, two members of the local angling club reported that the motor boat Mahaba was overdue. There was a light northeast breeze with a smooth sea....
Lundy
FISHERMAN SIGHTS CASUALTY FROM TREE TOP Swanage, Dorset. At 4.22 on the afternoon of the 23rd of November, 1962, a fisherman reported to the honorary secretary that he had seen, from the top of a tree, a fishing vessel drifting a mile off...
A Yacht (1)
NO SURVIVORS FOUND FROM BURNT YACHT Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At seven minutes past one on the afternoon of Sunday the 28th of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht had been reported on fire and had...
None
Bare factsSwanage's relief Rother class Horace Clarkson was called out on 7 May 1990 when a swimmer was reported to have entered the water from a nearby naturist beach and had not been seen for some 40 minutes.
As the...
An Aeroplane (22)
SEPT. 9TH. - MARGATE, KENT, AND SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off Leysdown. The Margate life-boat was launched just after eleven at night in a thick fog and reached Leysdown two hours and twenty...
The S.S. Commar
OCT. 11TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON. NORFOLK. At 6.46 A.M.
the Gorleston coastguard reported a message received from Yarmouth that a vessel had apparently grounded on the Scroby Sands.
A light S.W....