LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Pedalo
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.25 on the after- noon of the 29th of July, 1953, a message was received from the East Pier that two women and a boy were in difficulties in a Pedalo pleasure float, and were drifting seawards off Dumpton Gap. At 1.30 the...
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...
A Motor Cruiser
Three saved from cruiser on lee shore The rescue of three people from a disabled 25ft motor cruiser, which was only minutes from being driven on to a lee shore in large seas on the Norfolk coast, has earned Coxswain Anthony Jordon of Wells...
Anabisi
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 11.20 p.m. on 3rd September, 1965, the life-boat Watkin Williams was launched in a north-westerly wind of gale force and a rough sea to go to the assistance of a motor vessel whose engine had broken down five miles...
Dad's Army' Afloat
Two personalities from the television programme 'Dad's Army', who are always getting into hot water in the famous B.B.C. serial, sailed into cold water at the Little Venice Boat Afloat Show on 24th May-3rd June on behalf of the R...
Category: Articles
Rescue During Convalescence
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Bawtree of Porthleven have received a letter of thanks signed by the Chairman of the Committee of Management, Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham- Quin, R.N., for rescuing two boys who had been cut off by the tide at Gillan...
Category: Services
Yimkin
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. — On the morning of the 31st of August, 1952, it was reported that a small yacht had capsized between Black Rock Buoy and Hurst Point, and at 11.35 the life-boat S.G.E. left her moorings. The sea was rough, with a...
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Rock-n-Roll
Red Flares AT 7.4 p.m. on May 29 the Coastguard at Littlehampton, Sussex, told the honorarv secretary that he had receiveda call reporting red flares being fired six miles west south west of the harbour entrance.
The ILB...
The Sailing Ship Ardencraig
The sailing ship Ardencraig, of Glasgow, foundered off Scilly during the afternoon of 8th January. Distress signals were heard from the Bishop Light-house, and the St.
Agnes Life-boat, Charles Deere James, and St....