LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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...
The Cutter-rigged Yacht Velma
YACHT TOWED CLEAR IN GALE Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.55 on the evening of the llth August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had gone aground some thirty or forty yards off St. Osyth beach. Of her crew of...
Sea Knight
EMPTY CABIN CRUISER AND DINGHY FOUND Poole, Dorset. At 2.35 on the morning of the 30th September, 1962, the police informed the coastguard that two men were missing in a cabin cruiser. They had left twelve hours earlier to dig for bait at...
Esso Guildford
INJURED MAN LANDED FROM DRIFTING TANKER Wicklow, Co. Wicklow. At 9.45 a.m.
on Sunday the 18th of August, 1963, the honorary secretary was informed that an injured man on board the tanker Esso Guildford, 22 miles east of the...
A Dinghy and San Toy
Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 4th of August, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with an out- board motor had broken down off Penmon Point. At three o'clock the life-boat Field...
An Open Motor Boat
Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 4.55 on the afternoon of the 7th of December, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an angler, while fishing from the beach at Rossall Point, had seen a light being flashed from an open motor...
The Sailing Boat Crackerjack
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 1.57 on the afternoon of the 12th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized six hundred yards off shore in Lydstep haven. At 2.1 the life-boat Henry Comber...
Goosander and Barbar
Swanage, Dorset. At 5.57 on the evening of the 17th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Anvil Point lighthouse keeper had seen a yacht with a dinghy astern drifting to the westward, with the yacht's...
A Speed Boat (1)
Blown offshore ON THE EVENING OF Thursday July 5, 1984, Clyde Coastguard received a 999 call after a small speedboat had been seen, broken down about three quarters of a mile off Cowan Rock, near Girvan.
Her crew of two men...
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Whitby: 1235 on Tuesday March 19, 1985. A party of 27 school children with three teachers were reported by a member of the public to be cut off by the tide at Jump Down Bight, 250 yards east of Whitby. Both the relief 44ft Waveney class...