LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sailing Boat Cameo
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 8.23 on the evening of the 12th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the sailing boat Cameo with a man and a boy on board was overdue from Langstone harbour. She had left the...
Fairweather Father (1)
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, and Poole: While on passage from Guernsey to Portsmouth on Thursday August 19, 1982, the 30ft ferro-concrete gaff sloop Fairweather Father broke her rudder 18 miles south west by south of the Needles Lighthouse. A...
Hasty Lady
Engine failure THERE WAS A northerly near gale, force 7, blowing and a rough sea when the relief 47ft Watson class lifeboat, T.G.B., on temporary duty at Lowestoft, left her mooring at 1832 on the evening of Friday October 5, 1984. She was...
Zircon (1)
On the bar THE SERVICE BY FWLLHELi lifeboat and Criccieth ILB to the yacht Zircon during the early hours of September 1, 1977, was reported in the winter 1977/78 issue of THE LIFEBOAT. Zircon, with four people on board, had run aground...
A Dutch Cargo Vessel
Medical assistance required on 10 March Dover lifeboat was requested to launch to a injured crewman aboard a Dutch cargo vessel lying off Dover.
The Severn class lifeboat, City of London II, launched immediately and located...
An Aeroplane (25)
MARCH 25TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 10.55 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had come down in the sea one mile off Sandsend and that her crew had taken to their rubber dinghy. All the fishing boats...
A Yacht From Dungarvan
JUNE 16TH. - HELVICK HEAD, CO.
WATERFORD. At three in the afternoon a man reported to the honorary secretary that a yacht from Dungarvan was at anchor about a mile and a half east of Helvick Head. A very strong...
Annie
SEPTEMBER 13TH. - TROON, AYRSHIRE.
At eleven in the morning news was received that a man and two women who had left harbour the previous day in the auxiliary sailing boat Annie, were thought to be on Lady Isle.
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December (1)
GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE. At about 9.30 in the mornmg of the 7th October, 1942, a military aeroplane crashed into the sea about four miles, N.N.W. of Girvan. The sea was calm, with a light westerly wind. The Fraserburgh motor fishing boat Primrose,...
Category: Services
The S.S. South Coaster
DECEMBER 2lST. - EXMOUTH, DEVON.
At 8.15 in the morning of the 13th of December, the S.S. South Coaster, of Cardiff, ran aground on the eastern end of Pole Sands, west-by-south three-quarters of a mile from Orcombe Point....