LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
THAT SINKING FEELING
Sometimes you can do everything right and the sea will still find a way to catch you out. Two friends from Bristol found this out when they decided to hit the east Devon coast for the late May Bank Holiday
With...
Category: Articles
Cover Picture
The Shoreham, Sussex, life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant—she is a 42-foot Watson cabin class type—leaving her slipway during a recent exercise in which she was specially photographed by Mr. J.
Jochimsen of Photo Process... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy (2)
Dungeness, Kent. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 23rd of August, 1958, the coxswain was informed that a dinghy with two people on board was in difficulties off Lade. One of the men was waving a red handkerchief attachedto a paddle. Five...
Dhow Moa
Dungeness, Kent. At 10.5 a.m. on i8th June, 1965, the coxswain heard that the yacht Dhow Moa was having difficulty in making Folkestone harbour because of bad weather and had been aground on two occasions. The life-boat Mabel E.
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Kingfisher, Lily and Three Brothers
COBLES ESCORTED IN NEAR GALE Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 26th August, 1962, the harbour master told the honorary secretary he felt anxious for the safety of the fishing cobles Kingfisher, Lily and Three Brothers,...
Classifieds
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Category: Advertisement
Sabine, of Onway
Beaumaris, Anglesey - At 8.50 a.m.
on 1st November, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties in Conway Bay. The lifeboat Field Marshal and Mrs Smuts was launched at...
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Tern
Scarborough, Yorkshire - At 12.5 p.m. on I5th June, 1967, a small boat with two men on board was reported in difficulties in South bay. The life-boat J. G.
Graves of Sheffield was launched at 12.15 in a slight north...
September
Launches 31 Lives rescued 13 SEPTEMBER 1ST. -
COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. At 10.20 at night a fisherman returned from trawling and reported that a lobster boat appeared to be in distress near How Strand, to the east of...
Category: Services
A Large Coble
On the 2nd February it was blowing a whole E.N.E.
gale and a very heavy sea was running in the bay, endangering a large coble which had been left at anchor, and was then in broken water. As it was not safe for the fishermen...