LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht (3)
THREE SAVED FROM YACHT IN GALE Humber, Yorkshire. At six o'clock on the morning of Sunday the 18th of August, 1963,the Spurn Point coastguard told the coxswain superintendent that a yacht on passage from Spurn to Bridlington was overdue....
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Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE past year was an anxious one for the Central Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund and for the Life-boat Saturday Committees generally through- out the country. Owing to the appeals which were made practically in every district, city...
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Tarbek
Workington, Cumberland.—On the 29th of April, 1957, the master of the motor vessel Tarbek, of Hamburg, anchored off the entrance to Working- ton harbour, asked if a doctor could be sent to his vessel to attend six members of his crew. The...
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Donaghadee, Co. Down.—About three in the morning on the 15th of March, 1950, the Orlock Head coastguard tele- phoned that red flares had been seen to the eastward. A quarter of an hour later the life-boat Civil Service No. 5 left her...
Boy Jermyn
OCTOBER 20TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 11.30 on the night of the 19th the coastguard reported that a steamer in the harbour was making signals of distress. A strong westerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The life-boat crew...
The Danish Motor Vessel Loa Ronn
MAY 13TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
About noon a vessel was seen five miles out showing a “Not under control” signal. She anchored, and was kept under observation, but later she went on her way. At 6.30 she was seen to be...
Books
The sailor's word-book By Admiral WH Smyth Published by Conway Maritime Press ISBN 0851779727 paperback Price £9.99 Although first published in 1867, this digest of nautical terms is far more than just a period piece and should...
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Two Chances
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 9.34 a.m. on 3rd July, 1965, the honorary secretary heard that the Barrow Deep lightvessel had reported a yacht aground and lying on her side on the Sunk Sands.
Weather conditions did not...
Chong Peng
Combined Operation THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Appledore, North Devon, was informed at 3.26 a.m., on Wednesday, September 19, 1973, that a yacht was in distress 28 miles to the west of the lifeboat station.
The...