LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Champion of The Seas
At 1 A.M.
on the 15th October it was reported that a schooner was ashore on the north beach. The rocket apparatus turned out and endeavoured to effect communication from the shore, but the vessel was too far off, and they...
Contents
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 52 Number 520 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Assistant Editor: CLAIRE JUDD Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI...
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Cantabria
On December 13th a telephone message was received from the Hope Cove Coastguard that a vessel was ashore between Prawle Point and Greystones. The Motor Life-boat Alfred and Clara Heath was launched at 4.45 A.M., in a strong N.E. breeze, with...
Star of Hope and Flora
Staithes, Yorkshire.—Early on the morning of the 6th May the local fishing cobles Star of Hope and Flora put to sea to haul crab and lobster pots.
Fog had been very dense for about sixteen hours, but had cleared. Some time...
An Aeroplane (17)
FEBRUARY 19TH. - PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
A British Whitley aeroplane had crashed in Abersoch Bay, but Royal Air Force speedboats rescued five of the crew and picked up two bodies. - Rewards £5 14s.
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...
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None (1)
Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 10.55 on the morning of the 9th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a report received from the police that a small boy was in the sea off Rossall Point. At 11.5 the life-boat Ann...
Suantrai
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 11.53 on the morning of the 13th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with three people on board was being carried across Kilbrannon Sound. At 12.8 the life-boat City...
Sea Flower
COBLE ESCORTED TO HARBOUR Blyth, Northumberland. At 5.36 on the evening of the 15th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Newbiggin coble fishing from Blyth was making heavy weather between a mile and two miles...
Sea Ventures III
Swanage, Dorset. At forty-five minutes past midnight on 29th July, 1965, a white flashing light was observed half a mile offPeverel Point. At 1.17 a.m.
the life-boat R.L.P. was launched. There was a gale blowing from the...