LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Up Thames
The paragraph headed 'Life-boat Up Thames' on page 149 of the July Journal referred, of course, to Kingston and Surbiton. It had been planned that those mentioned should be there, but in fact they were not, and the 'mystery...
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A Dinghy (2)
DINGHIES AND CANOES IN TROUBLE IN CHOPPY SEA Swanage, Dorset. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 22nd April, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a fibre-glass dinghy with an outboard motor was in difficulties on Peveril Ledge, but...
Cheboque, of The Royal Canadian Navy
OCTOBER 11TH - 12TH. THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. The frigate Cheboque, of the Royal Canadian Navy, had been torpedoed in the Atlantic eleven hundred miles away, with the loss of one of her crew of forty-three, and severe damage to her stern...
Dinghies
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At about 4 p.m. on 2oth June, 1965, the coxswain and another man were watching dinghies racing in the estuary when a sudden gust of wind capsized four dinghies at once. The sailing club's rescue boats were...
An Aeroplane (31)
SEPTEMBER 6TH. - HASTINGS AND EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX. At 12.40 in the afternoon information was received from the coastguard and the police that an aeroplane was down in the sea. A fresh W.S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The...
Ebro
MARCH 18TH. - FRASERBURGH, AND PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. Just before nine o’clock in the evening the coastguard at Kinnaird Head reported that a white rocket had been seen off Rattray Head, and at 9.20 the Fraserburgh motor life-boat John...
Polly Cook
Workington, Cumberland. At 11.20 on the morning of the 2nd October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a trawler was drifting a mile and a half off Working- ton. The life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX left her...
Concord
Gourdon, Kincardineshire. At 6.15 p.m. on loth July, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the coastguard that the motor fishing 'vessel Concord had broken down'7!^ miles south-east of Gourdon. The life-boat the Edith Clouson-Thue...
Plover
FIVE TAKEN OFF Dover, Kent. At 3 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, a cabin cruiser off Cock Point was observed burning a red flare.
At 3.31 the life-boat Southern Africa put to sea. There was a strong south-westerly wind, the sea...
None (17)
JULY 14TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
At 11.20 A.M. the coastguard reported that two bathers, men of the R.A.F., were drowning off Perranporth. A strong S.W. wind was blowing with a moderately heavy sea. The motor life-boat...