LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Arklow, Co. Wicklow. At 10.30 on the morning of the 3rd of April, 1958, the motor mechanic was told that the body of a man had been seen in the sea at Arklow Rock. The Civic Guards were informed and they replied that the body could not be...
Eastbourne Lifeboat the 37Ft
Launch into south-westerly strong gale, force 9, Sunday March 22: Three progressive photographs of Eastbourne lifeboat, the 37ft 6in Rather Duke of Kent, taken by 16-yearold Matthew Hancock as (left) she launched down her slipway into... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Boy on cliffs AT 2133 ON SUNDAY, June 27, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Holyhead lifeboat station that a boy had fallen 200 feet down the cliffs and into the sea at North Stack but had swum back to the cliffs and had...
A Pram Dinghy
Blown offshore AT MERSEA ISLAND in the early evening of Sunday September 11, 1983, although the water was smooth off Cooper's Beach, a north-easterly near gale, force 7, was blowing off the shore and the tide was ebbing. At 1724 Thames...
Nell Gwyn
Sails jammed A MAYDAY MESSAGE from the yacht, Nell Gwyn, in distress off Amlwch, was received by Holyhead coastguard on the morning of Monday October 8, 1984.
At 1127 Moelfre's lifeboat, the 37ft 6in Rother class,...
Three Pleasure Boats, the Sea Pearl, the Sea Otter and the Endeavour
Fog bound ON March 11 two pleasure boats, the Sea Pearl and the Sea Otter, w i t h fishing parties aboard were reported overdue in Ayr harbour.At 6.30 p.m. the Troon lifeboat Conncl Elizabeth Car gill slipped her moorings to make a search in...
Anjonika
Broken steering ON SATURDAY April 28, at 0700, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Port St Mary lifeboat station that a fishing vessel, Anjonika, was disabled 13 miles to the south east. She had been on passage, in ballast, from...
Karron
Blyth, Northumberland - At 5.28 p.m.
on 24th September, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that flares had been seen one and a half miles off Blyth beach. The IRB was launched at 5.29 in a gentle south...
Spes
Padstow, Cornwall - At 3 p.m. on 21st August, 1968, it was learnt thatthe motor boat Spes with six people and a dog on board was overdue. She had last been sighted one and a half miles north east of Galland island.
The life...
The Royal Marine Landing Craft L.136
GROUNDED CREW A red flare sighted in the vicinity of the Bernbridge Ledge buoy on 14th June, 1971, led to the Bembridge, Isle of Wight, life-boat the Jack Shayler and the Lees being launched at 11.40 p.m.
in an east north...