LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Canoe (1)
Dover, Kent. At 3.5 on the afternoon of the 11th of July, 1960, a report was received that a canoe had capsized in Dover harbour. The life-boat Southern Africa put out at 3.15 in a fresh south- westerly gale and a moderate sea. It was two...
Sea Hawk
Swanage, Dorset. At 1.32 p.m. on 16th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small outboard dinghy, situated offDurlston Head, was drifting on the tide with a man and boy on board. The life-boat R.L.P. was...
Norseman
Thurso, Caithness-shire. At 2.15 p.m. on 29,th May, 1965, the fishing boat Norseman was reported aground on the Spur of Muckle. The life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) was launched at 2.30. There was a gentle north-westerly breeze and...
A Canoe
CANOE CAPSIZED Dover, Kent. At 1.5 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, the honorary secretary learned that a canoe with one man aboard was drifting towards the Admiralty pier. The life-boat Southern Africa proceeded at 1.20 in a strong south-westerly...
None (21)
Newquay, Cornwall. At 12.20 on 2ist July, 1965, the honorary secretary learnt that a man had fallen down the cliffs between Treyarnon and Porthcothan.
At 12.25 the IRB launched in light variable airs and slight sea. The man...
Lans (1)
Cliff face helicopter lift LONOHOPE honorary secretary was informed by the Coastguard at 2352 on December 20, 1974, that the Belgian trawler Lans was ashore on the north side of Tor Ness and required immediate assistance. Longhope lifeboat,...
None (1)
A few weeks later, on May 28, a pleasure boat was returning from a lighthouse trip when her crew, Second Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Ronald Wheeler spotted a man on the rocks signalling that somebody was injured.
Unable to...
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st December, 1955 79,970 Notes of the Quarter THE year 1955 has been classified by...
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Notes of the Quarter By the Editor
WHEN RICHARD EVANS, the former Moelfre coxswain, concluded his reply to the toast of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution at a dinner given by the Corporation of London in Guildhall on April 26 to mark 'The Year of the Lifeboat',...
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King Ja Ja
About 6 o'clock on the morning of the 13th October, whilst a strong northerly gale was blowing, a steamer which proved to be the King Ja Ja, of Swansea, bound from Newcastle to Methil, with a cargo of steam rails, was sighted in a...