LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Boat (1)
TOW FOR FISHING BOAT WITH BROKEN SHAFT Thurso, Caithness-shire. At 5.30 on the afternoon of the 24th April, 1962, the keeper of the Dunnet Head lighthouse informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat with a broken propeller shaft was...
A Speed Boat
TWO SAVED AFTER SPEEDBOAT CAPSIZES Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 6.4 p.m. on Saturday the 13th of July, 1963, the Shoreham coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a speedboat had capsized half a mile south of the harbour entrance. The...
A Sailing Boat (3)
Selsey, Sussex. At 3.47 on the after- noon of the 23rd of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing boat had capsized off Bognor Regis. At 3.55 the life-boat John R. Webb, on temporary duty at the station...
A Boat (2)
On the 7th of December, 1959. the Cromarty and Torbay life-boats carried out services for which medals for gallantry were awarded. Full accounts of these services begin on page 389.
On the same day the Longhope life- boat...
A Rescue Boat
TOWED RESCUE BOAT At 9.40 p.m. on 23rd November, 1964, the Tay road bridge contractors' safety officer told the coxswain that his rescue boat had broken adrift in the strong south-westerly breeze and was drifting downstream with the tide...
A Rowing Boat (1)
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 8.15 p.m. on 26th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a rowing boat about one mile north of Pirnmill with two men on board appeared to be drifting towards Loch Ranza. At 8.35 the life...
A Motor Boat (1)
Newcastle, Co. Down - At 12.10 p.m.
on 13th July, 1966, news was received that a motor boat, which had been trying to take another in tow, had had to leave the casualty apparently broken down and drifting two miles south of...
A Motor Boat (3)
Skegness, Lincolnshire - At 1.17 p.m. on I4th August, 1966, a small motor boat was reported to have broken down a quarter of a mile east of Chapel point. At 1.30 the IRB was launched in a heavy swell and a fresh westerly wind. It was one...
A Rowing Boat (1)
Life-boat O.N. 729 - While on passage from Baltimore to Crosshaven on the loth August, 1967, the life-boat John R. Webb came up with a small rowing boat with four people on board.
They had lost an oar and were drifting...
Row Your Boat (Left) -
Row your boat Heft) - launch of Brighton lifeboat. William Wallis, in 1929. - View image in PDF
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