LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
the 47' Cabin Cruiser Shark
Trapped below THE RAMSGATE/CALAIS HOVERCRAFT advised HM Coastguard Dover Straits at 0925 on Thursday August 4, 1977, that distress flares had been seen on the eastern edge of the Goodwin Sands, near the East Goodwin Lightvesselwhere a cabin...
Jane Ann
On the 14th May, at about 11 P.M., signals of distress were shown from a vessel in Carnarvon Bay, apparently at a distance of seven or eight miles from Porthdinllaen. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the N.N.E., and a heavy sea was...
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Torbay, Devon. At 8.5 on the evening of the 3rd of June, 1958, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a boy was trapped on the side of a cliff at Berry Head and that coastguards with rescue apparatus were searching for him....
Two Small Yachts
Runswick, Yorkshire.—At 6.45 oil the evening of Sunday, the 24th of Sep- tember, 1950, one of two small yachts off Kettleness Point, was seen to be in difficulties. The other was standing by. During the next thirty minutes, however, the wind...
New For Dartmouth
new FOR DARTMOUTH the establishment of a permanent lifeboat station at Dartmouth, Devon, has come one step closer, with the granting of planning permission for a boathouse.
the River Dart and its estuary are home to 3,400...
Category: Articles
Death of a Launcher
ON the afternoon of the 30th of May, ths life-boat at Cullercoats ran an engine trial. As she was being re- placed on her carriage she slipped and fell on one of the launchers, a man of sixty-seven. One of his legs was so severely injured...
Category: Obituaries
Eastbourne:
Eastbourne: While the station's 37ft 6in Rather class lifeboat, Duke of Kent, was out on exercise on the morning of Sunday September 9, 1984, a sailboarder was seen from the shore to be in difficulty and the Coastguard asked... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Use of a Line Thrown to Wrecked Vessels from the Shore
IT is a commonly-received opinion, that if a line can only be thrown over a stranded vessel, the salvation of those on board her is almost secured. It seems to be presumed that those at either end of this slender com- munication, after...
Category: Articles
Ann of Lonan
Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 12.40 in the early morning of the 4th of February, 1950, the coastguard reported that dis- tress flares were being burned off Douglas Bay. At one o'clock the life- boat Millie Walton was launched in a heavy sea...
Herring Boats
Early on the morning of the 17th January several local herring boats put off to fish in the bay. Later heavy S.W.
squalls sprang up, with a rough sea and rain. It was reported that some of the boats were in danger, and the...