LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Galway Bay. At 10.30 on the morn- ing of the 10th of December, 1959, the local doctor asked the honorary secre- tary if the life-boat could take a patient, who urgently needed hospital treatment, from Inisheer to Rossaveal pier on the...
Seawitch
YACHT TOWED IN AS GALE SPRINGS UP Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 6.35 on the evening of the 8th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht needed help immediately twenty-five miles north-west of Portpatrick....
A Dinghy (1)
Bembridge, Isle of Wight, inshore rescue boat on 19th August went to the aid of a dinghy in difficulties off Whitecliffe point.
The IRB was launched at 1.50 p.m. in a moderate south westerly wind with a rough...
A Sailing Dinghy
Swanage, Dorset - At 4.38 p.m. on 26th October, 1968, it was learnt that a sailing dinghy with five people on board had capsized in the Peveril Ledge tide race. The life-boat R.L.P.
was launched at 4.47. The tide was ebbing...
Appledore June 21 1986:
Appledore, June 21, 1986: Mrs Trevor Thomas demonstrates the only way to christen an Atlantic 21. In this case it was Manchester and District No XXXII, funded by an appeal inspired by a former Lord Mayor of Manchester, Mr Trevor Thomas. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lora and H.H. 100
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.50 on theafternoon of the 27th of May, 1956, the coastguard telephoned to say that the schooner Lora, of East Mersea, had had some of her sails carried away and was drifting east-by-south of Clacton Pier. At 3.2...
Southwards and Westwards
Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 12.37 on the afternoon of the 13th of November, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the vessel Drop- ford was towing the fishing vessel Southwards, which had engine trouble, towards Morecambe...
Will Everard
Caister, Norfolk. At 8.20 on the morning of the 13th of December, 1960, the life-boat mechanic telephoned to say the barge Will Everard was aground on Scroby Sand due east of the life-boat station. This was confirmed later by the coastguard....
Messenger
SCILLY.—During the night of the 27th October the wind blew a very heavy gale from the W.S.W., and early on the morning of the 28th signals of distress were observed from the direction of Trescoe.
Thp Henry Dundas Life-boat...
Fishing Boats (1)
On the morning of the llth February the Ferryden fleet of fishing boats, about fifty in number, left Montrose for the fishing grounds, the wind blowing then a moderate breeze from the N. About 11 o'clock the wind increased, and a heavy...