LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Open Salmon Yawls
Youghal, Co. Cork. On the 13th of April, 1960, the local fleet of open salmon yawls were fishing at the entrance to the harbour. At 12.30 one of the boats was carried out into the rough confused water on the bar, and the life-boat Herbert...
Yacht Marieke
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 1.45 on the morning of the 28th of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a Dutch barge, which had an- chored off the east pier, had engine trouble and needed help to enter the harbour. At 5.31 the...
Margaret
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 25th of January, 1958, the honorary secretary was informed that the local motor fishing vessel Margaret had left the harbour at four o'clock to attend her lines and was...
Sampan
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. On the evening of the 8th of March, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat, which had left Newhaven for Shoreham Harbour at noon, had not arrived. At 10.30 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and...
Dolce Vita
MOTOR BOAT TOWED BACK TO HARBOUR Weymouth, Dorset. At ten o'clock on the night of Sunday the 18th August, 1963, the Wyke coastguard reported to the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen a mile east of Grove Point. At 10.22...
Maricke
Swanage, Dorset. At 8.6 on the even- ing of the 14th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a yacht with two people on board was drifting near Old Hang Rocks. The life-boat R.L.P. put out at 8.19 in a gentle...
Bel Espoir
St. Helier, Jersey. At 3.57 on the afternoon of the 23rd of February, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that the yacht Bel Espoir with two people on board was ashore on the rocks off Green Island. At 4.14, when the life- boat...
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Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 28th June, 1961, the honorary secretary received an urgent message from the doctor at Gaveedore that the resident nurse on Tory Island had fallen while trying to...
Sgiandubh
Amble, Northumberland. At 4.42 on the afternoon of the 9th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that two men had been seen cling- ing to a dinghy which had capsized at the north end of Coquet Island. There was a light...
Carousel
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At six o'clock on the evening of the 5th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had been observed dragging her anchor half a mile off Holland-on-Sea, and that there...