LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy (1)
Dungeness, Kent. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 12th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a rubber dinghy was being blown out to sea off Littlestone. At 1.30 the life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched in a rough...
A Rowing Boat (1)
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 8.15 p.m. on 26th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a rowing boat about one mile north of Pirnmill with two men on board appeared to be drifting towards Loch Ranza. At 8.35 the life...
Two Dinghies (1)
Ennal's Point crew ON THURSDAY June 4, 1981, The Mumbles D class inflatable lifeboat was at sea taking part in filming for the BBC 2 series 'Ennal's Point' when, at 1930, a dinghy capsized with Gareth Armstrong, one of the...
Laity F. (1)
Tug on fire THAMES COASTGUARD informed Southend- on-Sea lifeboat station at 1130 on Saturday March 21, 1981. that the tug Laity Fwas on fire near No 3 Sea Reach Buoy. The crew assembled and took the transport down Southend Pier and at 1148...
A Dinghy (1)
DIFFICULT RESCUE FROM ROCK THE Pwllheli life-boat and the Abersoch ILB, stationed on the Caernarvonshire coast, answered a call on 25th June, 1972, when two men in a motor boat were reported overdue.
The search started when...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Ramsgate, Kent - At 4.55 p.m. on 25th May, 1969, the east pier watchman told the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized in Pegwell bay. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 5.5 in a fresh east north...
A Motor Boat (1)
Newcastle, Co. Down - At 12.10 p.m.
on 13th July, 1966, news was received that a motor boat, which had been trying to take another in tow, had had to leave the casualty apparently broken down and drifting two miles south of...
A Rowing Boat (1)
Life-boat O.N. 729 - While on passage from Baltimore to Crosshaven on the loth August, 1967, the life-boat John R. Webb came up with a small rowing boat with four people on board.
They had lost an oar and were drifting...
A Catamaran (1)
DONATION MADE Dunbar, East Lothian. At 840 p.m.
on I5th June, 1965, a member of the public told the coxswain that a catamaran had capsized about 300/400 yards off the harbour entrance. The life-boat Margaret put out at 8.51...
Moss Rose (1)
COBLE ESCORTED At 9.30 a.m. on 29th October, 1965, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a coble which was five miles away might be in need of assistance as weather conditions were deteriorating. The lifeboat Friendly Forester...