LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Boat (1)
Wick, Caithness-shire, and Longhope, Orkney.—21st June, 1938. A motor boat bound from Wick to Longhope was long overdue, but a search was without result. Later it was learned that the boat had taken shelter in a cove.—Rewards: Wick, £10...
Fishing Boats (1)
Ramsgate, Kent.—Four small fishing boats manned by fifteen men left harbour at 7 A.M. on the 2nd October, 1938. By ten o'clock a whole S.W.
gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The boats were unable to make harbour,...
A Sailing Boat (1)
Newhaven, and Selsey, Sussex. At 12.5 on the afternoon of the 17th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing boat had capsized a quarter of a mile off Cuckmere and that her crew of two could be...
A Rowing Boat (1)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 4.27 on the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small rowing boat was anchored off Holland-on-Sea near the buoy marking the sewer. Her occupant was waving a...
A Boat (1)
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 2.16 on the afternoon of the 18th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat had capsized near the West Princess buoy.
The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched...
Fishing Cobles (1)
Boulmer, Northumberland. At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 4th April, 1961, the honorary secretary noticed that three local fishing cobles appeared to be in difficulties. At 2.45, when the life- boat Clarissa Langdon was launched, there was a...
A Yacht (1)
Sheringham, Norfolk. At 4.5 on the afternoon of the 9th August, 1961, the coastguard told the honorary secretary there was a small yacht in difficulties off Sparrow Gap, Weybourne, and that there were three young men on...
A Canoe (1)
Falmouth, Cornwall. At 9.45 on the morning of the 16th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small canoe had capsized off Castle beach and that its two occupants were in the water. The life- boat Crawford and...
She's A Lady (1)
Cromer and Sheringham, Norfolk- At 6 p.m. on 30th June, 1968, the honorary secretary of the Cromer lifeboat station was told that a small boat was in difficulties off Sheringham beach. The life-boat Ruby and Arthur Reed was launched at 6.12....
A Boat (1)
Exmouth and Torbay, South Devon.— At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1956, the Brixham coastguard rang up to say that the Devon County Constabulary had reported that two children who had gone out from Dawlish in a small boat had...