LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
British Queen, of London, and Brig Valiant, of Jersey
A very- sudden and severe storm was experienced here on the 10th February, when no less than six vessels were wrecked at the mouth of the Tyno within a short dis- tance of each other, besides others that received considerable damage in...
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Fame
ANXIETY ABOUT TWO Selsey, Sussex. At 8 p.m. on 28th July, 1964, a member of the life-boat crew told the honorary secretary that concern was felt for the safety of two young men in a sailing dinghy about two miles east of Selsey Bill. They...
Visit of the Deputy-Chairman and Sir Gerard Noel to St. Abbs, Dunbar and Skateraw
THE management and the practical working of a great national service like that of the Life-boat demand the constant attention of the technical officers of the Institution ; and these, under the direction of the Chief Inspector of Life-boats,...
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An Italian Barque
KINGSDOWNE.—During a strong S.W.
breeze and hazy weather on the 29th December, signals of distress were shown from a vessel ashore on the Goodwin sands. The Kingsdowne Life-boat proceeded to her, and' found she was an...
Cyprus
The No. 2 Life-boat Godsend proceeded to the assistance of the fishing dandy Cyprus, of Great Yarmouth, which had shown flares, having stranded on the Inner South Barber Sand, during a moderate W. breeze the 9th...
Fishing Boats (1)
Wick, Caithness-shire. — During the afternoon of the 25th January, 1939, two local fishing boats were caught at sea by a strong easterly breeze, with a rough sea. They were seen making for harbour and the motor life-boat City of Edinburgh...
A Yacht (8)
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 2.8 p.m.
on 26th August, 1965, a yacht was reported to have capsized off Westcliffe swimming pool. At 2.9 the IRB launched in a gentle to moderate south-westerly breeze and rough sea. She came up...
None (2)
Barrow, Lancashire, and Maryport, Cumberland.—During the morning of the 16th January, 1938, a man reported to the Whitehaven police that he had seen rockets off the coast between Seascale and Sellafield, about twentyeight miles by sea from...
None (2)
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 7.15 on the evening of the 5th of May, 1954, the Coast Life-saving Service at Skerries telephoned that two boys were stranded on an uninhabited island off Skerries.
At 7.50 the life-boat George...