LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lowestoft Motor Life-Boat and the Airship R33
ON the morning of 16th April the airship JR33 broke away from her moorings at the aerodrome, at Pulham, in Norfolk, and was carried out to sea by a strong W.S.W. gale. She was seen to cross the coast at 10.15 A.M., obviously in diffi-...
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A Dinghy
Workington, Cumberland - At 8.39 p.m. on llth September, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that he had received reports of a small boat flashing a white light about one and a half miles off Harrington. The signal appeared...
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...
Eve
Teesmouth, Yorkshire - At 8.35 p.m.
on 23rd June, 1967, it was learned that a trimaran had gone ashore in Coatham bay near the Warrenby outfall. The two men on board intended to put to sea again the following morning. In...
Campaigner
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 6.10 p.m. on i5th August, 1965, the coastguard told the life-boat coxswain that a yacht was aground on Cork Sands.
She was in no immediate danger, but it was later decided to launch the...
Wakeful, Success and Provider
PROPELLER FOULED At 4.20 p.m. on 25th November, 1965, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Wakeful had partially fouled her propeller and was returning to harbour from the fishing...
Rose
Buckie, Banffshire - At 2 p.m. on 4th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat had been reported to be drifting approximately four miles north-west of Buckie.
The life-boat Laura Moncur left her...
Betima
FISHING VESSEL TOWED TO HARBOUR Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 1.43 on the afternoon of the llth August, 1962, a resident at Penivar informed the honorary secretary that a motor fishing vessel had apparently broken down and was drifting in the...
An R.A.F. Speed Boat
JANUARY 16TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 12.30 P.M. the officer in command of the R.A.F. station asked for the life-boat to go to the help of an R.A.F. speed-boat, with a crew of three, which was in distress off Ramsey, and also to put men on...
The S.S. Hawthorn
At 1.15 in the afternoon of 5th January, when a whole S.S.W. gale was blowing, with rain and a heavy sea, the Coxswain noticed that the s.s. Hawthorn, of Liverpool, which was at anchor in Ramsey Bay, was signalling that a doctor was wanted...