LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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A few days before Jon Jones went on his West Country tour of lifeboat stations with the Dl, Sue Denny, RNLI Press and Public Information Manager was in the same area looking at stations through the eyes of a tourist… rset off bright and...

During the after- noon of the 10th July the coastguard telegraphed that a small motor boat had broken down one mile south of the Southbourne coastguard station. She was the motor boat Skylark, of Poole, and was bound, with four men and two...

During the afternoon of the 14th January, the coxswain reported that a local motor fishing boat, the Victory, had put out for the fishing grounds off Portskerra at 4 A.M. and had not returned. A heavy W.S.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy...

On the 5th December, the weather being thick, and a strong wind from W.S.W. blowing, a barque was observed in the bay, apparently making for the land. As soon as her dangerous po- sition was seen, the Agar Bobartes life-boat put off, through...

JANUARY 30TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

The No. 1 life-boat H. F. Bailey was at Gorleston, where she had put in after a service. While she was there news was received that a vessel was being attacked by enemy aircraft in Yarmouth...

Rosslare Harbour ROSSLARE HARBOUR in County Wexford is, according to the tourist brochures, the heart of the Sunny South East.

Unfortunately, on Friday June 28,1985, it failed to live up to its name. With the naming...

On the 31st De- cember, two French fishing-smacks were seen driving out of Dungeness Roads down on a lee-shore, off Dymchurch. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the S.W.

The Dungeness life-boat, the Providence, was...