LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy (10)
At. 1.30 p.m. on 9th August, 1966, a dinghy was seen in difficulties in the Rock Channel. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett left her moorings at 1.45 and proceeded in a strong south south easterly wind and a rough sea. It was two hours before...
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Galway Bay - At 5.40 p.m. on 2nd November, 1966, the local doctor requested the services of the life-boat to attend a woman on Inishere Island who was seriously ill. At 6.30 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson with the doctor on board, left...
Surf Motor Life-Boats. An Experimental Type
THIS year two motor life-boats of a new, experimental type have been com- pleted and stationed one at Wells, Norfolk, and the other at Ilfracombe, Devon. They are a surf type, and are 2J tons lighter than the light 35 feet 6 inches...
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Eventide
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 8.15 on the morning of the 3rd of April, 1958, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that anxiety was felt for a local open fishing boat which was at sea, as the weather was...
A Sailing Dinghy
Dungeness, Kent.—At 4.24 in the afternoon, on the 9th of April, 1950, the Lade coastguard telephoned that a sailing dinghy had capsized half a mile off Littlestone, tipping two people into the sea. At 4.38 the life-boat Charles Cooper...
A Dinghy
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 8.14 on the morning of the 26th of February, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the Brighton police had reported that a ten-feet dinghy was adrift one mile south-east of the Brighton Palace pier. At 8.25...
Quest Levant
At 10.34 p.m. on 19th July, 1968, the coastguard reported that red flares had been sighted three to four miles south south east of Portland Bill. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 10.55.
It was two...
Rosemary, Gratitude and Betty
Scarborough, Yorkshire. On the morning of the 13th of November,1959, the weather grew rapidly worse, and at 8.15 the life-boat J. G. Graves of Sheffield was launched as there were several local fishing cobles at sea.
There...
John Howard III
FOULED PROPELLER At 5.46 p.m. on 8th November, 1964,.
the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishing boat was in distress i \ miles off west pier, Brighton, in a choppy sea and fresh north-easterly breeze. It was...
Fertile Vale
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 4.15 a.m. on 2nd February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man was severely injured on board motor fishing vessel Fertile Vale which was 15 miles east by south of...