LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat (2)
Dover, Kent - At 4.50 p.m. on I5th October, 1966, a man was seen waving a white flag in a small boat about three quarters of a mile off the coast midway between Dover and Folkestone. The lifeboat Southern Africa left her moorings at 5.23. It...
None (16)
North Sunderland, Northumberland - At 11.25 P-m- on 22nd August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that five students who had gone to the inner Fames island had not returned to Durham University.
The life...
A Speed Boat
Criccieth, Caernarvonshire - At 11.25 a.m. on 2yth June, 1966, a speedboat was reported adrift in the bay. The conditions were too rough for a small shore-based craft to proceed. The lifeboat Robert Lindsay was launched at 11.35 a.m. in a...
Angela May
WORSENING WEATHER Filey, Yorkshire. At 9.50 a.m. on 4th March, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that the coble Angela May of Filey was fishing six to eight miles east of Brigg buoy in deteriorating weather. The lifeboat The ha &...
Enterprise
FOULED PROPELLERS Filey, Yorkshire. At 9.15 p.m. on 22nd July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen about four miles south-east of Filey. There was a slight sea with very little wind. It was one hour...
None (15)
DID NOT REVIVE At 4.15 p.m. on 3rd September, 1964, a nurse on Inishmaan Island reported that a doctor was needed to attend to a young girl who had been rescued from the sea. It was just after high water with a smooth sea and moderate...
The Motor Coble Premier
MAY 5TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At daybreak the motor coble Premier went out to attend to her crab pots.
As the wind and sea were rising the life-boat crew assembled. By early afternoon a strong north-easterly wind was...
An Aeroplane (64)
AUGUST 17TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 4.45 P.M. the naval authorities asked that the life-boat should be launched, as a body had been seen floating in the Cudd Channel.
A moderate N.W. breeze was blowing, but the see was...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS, KENT.—On the 20th Oct., 1869, the ship Frank Shaw, of North Shields, was totally wrecked, during a very heavy gale of wind, on the Goodwin Sands. She had sought shelter in the Downs, but was compelled .to slip her...
Category: Services
Narwhal
Blyth, Northumberland.—At 3.57 P.M.
on the 29th June, 1938, the coastguard reported that a sailing yacht about two miles S.E. of East Pier was in difficulties.
She was apparently trying to make Blyth, but...